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Former cabinet minister Sidik Mia has said reports that he is joining main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and is...
Only one comment! This shows what little interest we have in recognizing and solving this fundamental problem. Birth control can help to solve a variety of problems. For example, in the US in the 1960s, teenage crime was exploding across the country and seemed set to increase indefinitely. However, the Roe vs Wade case resulted in abortion being made available to those with unwanted pregnancies. Consequently, far fewer babies were born to poor, single, drug-addicted, criminally-active mothers – and thus born into environments that bred juvenile delinquents. By the 1980s, the teenage crime rate had dropped dramatically. Of course, there… Read more »
This is common sense. If you have plenty of schools, teachers and learning aids for 3 million Malawians, you will need to build 6 times as many schools, train 6 times as many teachers, and produce 6 times as many learning aids for 18 million Malawians. This would need an economic miracle, yet pretty soon our population will be 6 times what it was at independence, despite the AIDS epidemic.