Published: February 19, 2010
Artists, DJs speak on the future of Malawi urban music |
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Local hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, pop and other urban music genres are now enjoying substantial listenership across Malawi.
Coming from the days when the country had few hip-hop (the well-known local urban genre then) artists, such as the Real Elements and Dynamike, the nation has witnessed the dawn of a new generation of urban musicians.
Unlike in the [...]
Published: February 4, 2010
Mixed reactions to Mutharika’s AU chairmanship |
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The election of the Malawi leader, Bingu wa Mutharika, as Africa Union (AU) chairman has been received with mixed reactions with local economists bashing it while political analysts have welcomed it.
Economic analysts are pointing out that there is nothing that Malawi will gain from Mutharika’s AU chairmanship as the country will lose out financially in [...]
Published: January 27, 2010
Malawi: Economic engineering versus governance |
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On Saturday, December 16, 2009, most Malawians woke up to disbelief when a banner headline in one of the weekend newspapers screamed “UK ministers hold fate of Malawi aid”. The article said that the new British High Commissioner to Malawi, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet had disclosed that the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) disbursement of its [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Earthquake 'swarm' shakes Malawi |
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While the world is fixated by the horror in Haiti little attention has been paid to at least 30 earthquakes that have rocked Malawi in the past month — the largest measuring 6,2 on the Richter scale.
Scientists are calling the quakes in Karonga — along the Great Rift Valley on the Tanzanian border — an [...]
Published: January 8, 2010
Dry spell flashes red lights over Malawi national tree |
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Malawi conservationists say the current dry spell that has hit the southern African country, which could be an effect of the climate change, could pose a threat to regeneration of the Mulanje Cedar – Malawi’s national tree.
Hastings Maloya, an environmental communications officer with the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust – an internationally-recognised institution that is facilitating [...]
Published: December 17, 2009
Enditnow: ADRA champions human rights in Malawi |
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Malawian national and regional leaders and thousands of community members participated in a 15-day campaign to end gender-based violence this month.
The campaign is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s global anti-violence campaign, EndItNow, coordinated by the Women’s Ministries Department and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA).
The campaign’s closing ceremony reached 20-plus villages in the [...]
Published: December 15, 2009
What climate change means for Malawians- People tell their stories |
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At the start of the critical final week of international climate change debate in Copenhagen, people living in another of the countries already affected by more extreme weather patterns, Malawi, tell their stories.
Chimwemwe Kalinde lives in the Ntcheu District of Malawi, where unpredictable rainfall has been reducing crop yields in recent years.
“The rains used to [...]
Published: December 12, 2009
Tiny device that brings a beacon of hope to the poorest Malawi villages |
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The winds blow hard in Malawi’s rainy season. When a gust took hold of Hilda Longwe’s stick-and-wattle home, a kerosene lamp hanging from the rickety window frame fell to the ground.
A curtain caught first. The fire quickly spread. Within seconds the shack was a raging inferno. Ms Longwe, who was widowed a few years earlier, [...]
Published: December 12, 2009
Fuel shortage affecting Malawi’s agricultural sector - farmers |
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Though there are signs of hope of easing the situation, Malawi is still experiencing a serious fuel shortage, a situation which has nearly brought all major socio-economic activities to a stand-still, according to farmers nationwide.
The farmers said the energy crunch, the worst in years, has virtually crippled the performance of different sectors of the economy [...]
Published: December 11, 2009
Malawi govt trying to give sex workers safer alternatives |
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A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV.
“Most [sex workers] leave school at an early age, get pregnant, and then have to provide for a [...]
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