Malawi Travel News

Towngate Northowram Halifax MY partner and I read with great interest the article "Life-changing experience for Rotarians in Africa" in the Courier, November 9, and noted the group had been to some unidentified place on Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

Bruce Parker Brooks Bulletin Mark Enns is a man who likes a challenge. Last year he took part in a cycling adventure in Thailand.

Since September 2008 the world has been confronted with a world financial crisis.

Have you ever wanted to experience the physical and cultural geography of places much different than your own? If so, a one-hour colloquium Thursday, Nov.

The Clyde-built MV Ilalia is a legend, but dona t expect trouble-free passage. Around noon on the third day of our voyage on the MV Ilala I realise I have something in common with the illustrious Scottish explorer who, indirectly, gave the ferry its name.

A NEWBURY nurse has been seriously injured in a horrific car crash in Malawi. Teresa Connolly, aged 34, was a front seat passenger when the car she was travelling in overturned in torrential rain in the south east African country last Thursday .

Anne and Josef Kottler helped inspire their daughter. Then she inspired them. The Westboro couple followed their daughter across the world this summer to a children's center in the East African coastal village of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, to see for themselves what 22-year-old Elisha loved so much about volunteering there.

The Downtown Presbyterian Church is hosting ecologist and Tanzania guide Yusuf Heme Ngaina for a free public presentation on "Climate Change: It's effect upon the Flora, Fauna and Human Inhabitants of Equatorial Africa." Ngaina is the administrator of the Mount Kilimanjaro Guide Association, and a graduate of the Professional Tour Guide School of ...

Family scales new heights for Providence Healthcare. Providence Healthcare board chair Chis Hodgson makes a presentation at the facility.

Regional flights in East Africa have always added a significant expense to travel itineraries and to make things worse, the schedules are often sporadic.

A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area.

In Today's Hotline: Read how UMCOR is responding to needs around the world: MALAWI: HELPING ORPHANS, EMPOWERING WOMEN This week, UMCOR Georgia in coordination with the Georgian Ministry of Health and other partner organizations, is distributing $7.2 million of donated medicines and medical supplies to health facilities throughout Tbilisi, the ...

Forward: In 2006 USA Today created a panel of great thinkers to come up with a modern version of the Seven Wonders of the World.

GAP year student Anna McSweeney is to hold an auction on Tuesday, November 10 to raise funds for her to volunteer as a teacher in Africa.

The government has decided to partly finance expenses of presidential candidates in next year's general election.

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.

The peak of Mount Kilimanjaro - For more info on the trip or to get involved please visit www.bealittledifferent.com 24th October 2009 Daniel Webb The risks taken by these students are not to be trivialised, 10 climbers die each year.

THE family and friends of York war hero Matthew Hatton are to raise tens of thousands of pounds in his memory by embarking on a daunting expedition.

A delegation of 13 Tanzanian women artists will be the guests of WSOS Community Action Commission today and will share their culture with the community.

Here's their story, in their own words... We started our epic journey from Lincolnshire in eastern England in April 2009, arrived in Johannesburg on September 13 and went on to Cape Town.