MALAWI: Project aims to put the brakes on spread of HIV/AIDS
In an effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among truck drivers and sex workers, the World Food Programme (WFP) and TNT, a Netherlands based logistics company, have set up a counselling and treatment...
View ArticleMALAWI: Focus shifts to irrigation agriculture
Various agricultural stakeholders have urged Malawi, blessed with abundant water resources, to develop irrigation schemes to ensure food security in the future.
View ArticleMadonna aids African orphans
Construction has begun on a children's home for AIDS orphans being built in Malawi with the help of a donation from Madonna, who is visiting the southern African nation.
View ArticleBumper Harvest Expected Again This Year
Farmers in Malawi are attributing the abundant harvest they are looking forward to - a total of 3.2 million metric tonnes of maize this year - to a combination of good rains and subsidised fertiliser,...
View ArticleHomemade Windmill in Malawi
A young man has created a windmill out of spare parts in Malawi.
View ArticleAl Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al)...
View ArticleSkies to be swept for alien life
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
View ArticleNew publication shows index insurance has potential to help manage climate...
Climate has always presented a challenge to farmers, herders, fishermen and others whose livelihoods are closely linked to their environment, particularly those in poor areas of the world.
View ArticleScientists, doctors unite to fight malnutrition
In a new fight against worldwide hunger, a doctor who has long treated malnourished people is working with plant scientists trying to improve the nutritional content of food.
View ArticleUnique Acacia Tree Could Nourish Soils And Life In Africa
Scientists have said at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry that a type of acacia tree with an unusual growth habit -- unlike virtually all other trees -- holds particular promise for farmers in...
View ArticleMalawi windmill boy with big fans
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
View ArticleMadonna promises light for Malawian 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.
View ArticleMalawi’s president vows to repeal gay ban
President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution.
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