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Mine Galvanizes Civil SocietyAs if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens. (AllAfrica)
Achievements in the Malawian health, education and water sectors
This report, prepared jointly by the National Statistical Office in Malawi and Statistics Norway, establishes a system to analyse resource-related poverty alleviation efforts. It enables the reader to follow sector-specific policy decisions from their inception through to the success or failure of their implementation. Data presented are selected to provide information for indicators of the Malawi poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) and the millennium development goal (MDG) indicators and resources which (eldis.org)
Combining statistical methods and participatory approaches to produce statistics in Malawi
Based on two of six studies carried out in Malawi in 1999-2002 to evaluate a program that distributed free agricultural inputs to smallholder farmers, the paper discusses how statistical methods and participatory approaches can be integrated into a methodology that allows the estimation of statistics such as population total and proportions. The methodology developed by the authors differs from other participatory approaches used elsewhere in that the numerical data (statistics) produced in Malawi using participatory (eldis.org)
Malawi: Mine Galvanizes Civil Society
As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining.
(Topix.net)Blame Game While Children Suffer
Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by. (AllAfrica)
Malawi Borrows a Leaf From Country's Development Activities
A seven-member delegation from Malawi visited the country last week to learn from Rwanda's experience in public sector investment planning. (AllAfrica)
Participation in social fund management in Malawi and Zambia
The paper examines community participation in social funds projects in Malawi and Zambia, and at the participatory processes through which the funds are dispersed. The authors find that: the Zambia and Malawi social funds have been able to implement a number of sub-projects that have spread resources across the respective countries through community- based demand driven models. while the ideal is that sub-project identification results form collective decision-making, in reality, it is usually an (eldis.org)
Elkhart Lake church helps build school in Malawi
Thanks to the donations from the congregation of St. John's United Church of Christ in Elkhart Lake, a school is being built in Malawi, South Africa.
(Topix.net)Malawi Threatens Arrests Over Madonna School Row
Malawi threatened on Thursday to arrest protesting villagers blocking construction of Madonna's multi-million dollar girls academy, a new controversy for the singer in the African country where she has adopted two children.
(Topix.net)Tanzania's Albinos Celebrate Death Sentences For Body Part Killers
Author: Jonathan Clayton and Erick Kabendera Mwanza Source: The Times Title: TANZANIA'S ALBINOS CELEBRATE DEATH SENTENCES FOR BODY PART KILLERS Ngeme Luhagula has not had a peaceful night's sleep since she saw her daughter hacked to death before her eyes two years ago.
(Topix.net)RIGHTS-MALAWI: Blame Game While Children Suffer
LIMBE, Malawi, Nov 4 - Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe.
(Topix.net)Boost for Trade
Government has called for the expeditious implementation of measures that promote trade between Zimbabwe and Malawi. (AllAfrica)
Malawi President to Take Over as AU President
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is likely to take over African Union chairmanship from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next January, African Union sources have said. (AllAfrica)
Africa: Malawi President to Take Over as AU President
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is likely to take over African Union chairmanship from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next January, African Union sources have said.
(Topix.net)Uganda: CHOGM Funds Used for Northern Bypass
THE Foreign affairs ministry diverted sh8.5b of the budget for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to finance the construction of the Northern Bypass, members of Parliament learned yesterday.
(Topix.net)Malawian boy uses wind to power hope, electrify village
William Kamkwamba fits a lightbulb to a house in his village in Malawi. Malawi had gone through one of its worst droughts seven years ago Amid shortage William Kamkwamba realized wind offered hope Armed with a book the then-14-year-old taught himself to build windmills His windmills now generate electricity and pump water in his hometown Malawi CNN ...
(Topix.net)"Government has sentenced me to death," Nambooze says [details]
Kampala Betty Nambooze, the Democratic Party spokesperson who was blocked on Monday from boarding a plane at Entebbe International Airport en route to South African where she had been referred for medical attention has accused government of sentencing her to death.
(Topix.net)Government in rush to recover Chogm cash
Kampala The Foreign Affairs Ministry wants city businessman Karim Hirji to refund Chogm cash amounting $1.5 because delegates did not use the Imperial Royale Hotel Kampala.
(Topix.net)Madonna named 'God' in Malawi
Madonna has been branded a "God" by the Malawi orphanage she adopted son David Banda from.
(Topix.net)Malawi kids impress Ayrshire pupils
AN EAGERNESS to learn, an acceptance of domestic chores and no TV or computer games - that is the impression a group of sixth year pupils from St Matthew's Academy in Saltcoats had of their counterparts in Malawi.
(Topix.net)Madonna promises electricity for Malawi village
Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.
(Topix.net)Madonna, visiting Malawian village with her 4 children, promises electricity
Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.
(Topix.net)Blairgowrie High Ben Nevis climb raises Malawi cash
A GROUP of 5th Year pupils at Blairgowrie High completed a climb up Ben Nevis, braving cold and wet conditions as well as a few sore feet while on a fund-raising event in support of a pupil trip to Malawi next year.
(Topix.net)African Woes Continue at FIFA Under-17 World Cup as Malawi Lose
Malawi Lost 2 -0 to the United Arab Emirates in a Under-17 World Cup Group E match played at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano on Monday, continuing Africa's poor run in the competition. (AllAfrica)
UN warns rogue African states
Kampala The United Nations will not sit and watch as Africa turns into a hub for conflicts and criminals, the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on the prevention of genocide, Mr Francis Deng, has said.
(Topix.net)Malawi Disinfranchises Mozambican Voters
The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, confirmed on Tuesday that the Malawian authorities have refused to allow polling stations for the Mozambican general elections to be opened anywhere on Malawian soil, outside of Mozambican diplomatic buildings. (AllAfrica)
Malawi Bars Voting
The government of Malawi has not allowed Mozambicans to vote except in the consulates and embassies, according to Felizberto Naife at a STAE press conference this morning. (AllAfrica)
Lost in the Tracking of Budgets
As Susan Muonanji and other vendors scrambled around one of the many transport busses to sell cabbages and tomatoes at a market along one of Malawi's key roads, a national budget session had just started in parliament some 100 kilometres away in the capital city, Lilongwe. (AllAfrica)
Malawi, Uae Light-Up Abacha Stadium
African newcomers Malawi will make a little piece of history today when they play their very first game in a FIFA competition. Their opponents at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano are Group E rivals United Arab Emirates. (AllAfrica)
Madonna To Meet Mercy's Biological Father in Malawi
Us Weekly : During her trip to Malawi to establish a $15 million school, Madonna plans to meet 3-year-old adopted daughter Mercy 's father.
(Topix.net)Malawi: A mother's race against time
Karen Allen visited the village of Pitala to discover how they claim to have cut the maternal mortality rate to zero.
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