Malawi News

“He is a farsighted politician, an inexhaustible intellectual, a charismatic person, and a visionary leader who is entrusted to lead our nation to a new direction, ending fifty years of dancing in a political quagmire.”

Malawi's Internet users have this year been experiencing new trends as now they can access and browse from their mobile phones and homes. via Global Voices Online

“The spirits say Museveni is a fellow fighter and they need him to accomplish the norms and other traditional functions that he never performed since he left the bush”

Nambi and Sserwaniko at Kampala Central Police Station. They will be charged with trespass with intent to annoy By Eddie Ssejjoba SECURITY personnel in Kampala yesterday arrested two people trying to enter the ... via New Vision

“I'd love to start blind boxing as a sport but I know of no others like me. There is athletics, javelin, even wrestling for blind people. Why not boxing?”

Blind boxer Bashir Ramadan, left, spars at East Coast Boxing Club in Kampala. It's an amateur boxing practice with a difference: neither fighter can see. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“We believe there are almost 200 minors still present in various FARDC [regular army] brigades currently deployed in North Kivu”

NAIROBI, 2 November 2007 - CONTENTS DRC: Demobilise child soldiers, free minors held by military courts, says MONUC CONGO: Chad arrests prompt suspension of international child adoption DRC-CONGO: Torrential ... via IRIN News

“Despite improvements in the Rwandan justice system serious concerns remain about its ability to investigate and prosecute crimes related to the 1994 Genocide fairly and impartially, in accordance with international standards of justice”

Rwanda has strongly denounced yesterday's statement by Amnesty International which urged governments worldwide not to transfer Genocide fugitives to Rwanda for trial. via AllAfrica.com

“With the license expired, do you expect MACRA to just look on?”

State regulators in the commercial city of Blantyre summarily pulled off the air on Tuesday Malawi's first private television station, citing an alleged regulatory violation, according to news reports and local ... via CPJ Press Freedom Online

LRA leader Joseph Kony and his deputy is wanted for war crimes Ugandan rebels say they have come home to find a way to get International Criminal Court arrest warrants against four of their top commanders set ... via BBC

“The World Bank is now doubling its commitment in Africa's broadband infrastructure development in the next five years by investing $1 billion in broadband infrastructure development”

Product Review World Bank's $1 billion to spur Africa IT By: Michael Malakata IDG News Service The World Bank's private arm, the International Financing Corp. via ITWorld Canada

“In the first five years, we are estimating we are going to spend around about $130-million in both countries”

A South African-led consortium announced on Thursday it would invest $130-million in upgrading the 106-year-old Kenya-Uganda Railway over the next five years. via Independent Online

Delegates from Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army have arrived in Kampala for talks Delegates from Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army have arrived in Kampala for talks aimed at advancing peace ... via Voice of America

“Food commodities have been bought from Malawi by WFP for operations in Liberia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe”

WFP buys 35,926 tonnes Malawi white maize for Zimbabwe Staff Reporter 01.NOV.07 LILONGWE -- The United Nations World Food Programme said on Wednesday it had bought 35 926 tonnes of white maize for Zimbabwe from ... via Talk zimbabwe

“This is a sign of many more good things coming as far as the peace process is concerned.”

KAMPALA, 31 October 2007 - The first official visit to the Ugandan capital by members of the Lord's Resistance Army has raised hopes among people affected by two decades of conflict in the north of the country ... via IRIN

“And it's important for the United Nations to get moving those troops into the Darfur region as quickly as possible”

President George W. Bush discussed the long-running conflict in northern Uganda with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday and believes the situation needs to move toward peace, the White House said. via AlertNet

“At least $300-million will be invested in projects aimed at promoting ICT [information and communication technology] across the African continent by 2012”

Regulars Interact Aimable Twahirwa Kigali, Rwanda 29 October 2007 02:04 African leaders and technology experts met on Monday in Rwanda to discuss plans to boost the continent's development by securing universal ... via Mail & Guardian

Malawi has begun its four-year 'fertiliser trees' project to reduce the reliance of subsistence farmers on expensive fertilisers. via ENN.com Environmental News

“We're so relieved to hear that her flight has been stopped, and perhaps now these cases will be looked at with some compassion. It seems that The Independent has helped hugely to bring the matter out in the open.”

The Zimbabwean asylum-seeker whose flight was due to leave for Malawi yesterday has had her passage cancelled. via The Independent

“I have been wanting to do something like this for quite a while. When I came across Build a School, its aims appealed to me greatly, as a Malawian. "Now I am chairman of the organisation, because I just wanted to give something back.”

A CHARITY is trying to raise 2,000 to finish building a village school in Malawi. via This is Local London

Malawi's President Bingu Wa Mutharika is reportedly upset and is challenging Berlin-based Transparency International to substantiate its findings that corruption is rampant in his country. via Voice of America

“Nearly 27,000 children die each day from preventable and treatable causes such as neonatal complications, diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria”

CRC NEWS: CRWRC Receives $1.5 Million to Fight Malaria From "Henry Hess" Date Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:41:01 -0400 Oct. via Worldwide Faith News

“Twenty-one died on the spot and five died in hospital from serious injuries they sustained”

Twenty-six Malawi opposition supporters died on Friday night when the vehicle they were travelling in to a party conference overturned, police said on Saturday. via AlertNet