Malawi’s Community based organizations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS are complaining that death is mocking their efforts against the pandemic. Officials of one such organization told me that after spending a lot of time in taking care of the terminally ill and hoping for the better, death comes and prove their efforts […]
Malawi’s Public Broadcasters Going Commercial
Malawi’s two Public Broadcasters; Television Malawi and the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, have defied calls by the private sector and other sectors not to go commercial. Government announced in September last year that it was toying with an idea to commercialise its two broadcasters after the opposition dominated parliament mockingly gave the two institutions US$0.014 to […]
Malawi Reduced Under-five Mortality by 29% By 2007
United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) said Malawi reduced its under-five mortality by 29 per cent by 2007 because it has put a number of things on a right course. UNICEF country representative for Malawi Ms. Aida Girma said she believes that if Malawi’s current progress is sustained and intensified, ‘Malawi is set to achieve the […]
Malawi Severs Ties with Taiwan and Switches to Mainland China
Malawi has ended weeks’ speculation when it announced today that it has severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and established new ties with Mainland China. Making the announcement at its Capitol Hill in Lilongwe Foreign Affairs Minister Joyce Banda says it hopes to benefit much by engaging Mainland China into a diplomatic relation. Banda read out […]
Malawi Set to Conduct Population and Housing Census
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has gone full throttle training different organisations in readiness of Malawi’s population and housing census, which is to be held in June this year. Malawi last conducted a similar exercise ten years ago although it was marred by a number of irregularities. The National Statistical Office (NSO) has said the […]
New Campaign to Woo Youth in HIV Testing
Malawi’s Health Minister Marjorie Ngaunje has said her ministry will soon announce new campaign approach to woo young people to go for HIV testing. Ngaunje said in an interview that the annual HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) Week, which the country conducted last July, clearly showed the reluctance of the youth to go for testing. […]