Malawi News

Mark Adams , Goal's country director for Uganda, explains how his organisation is achieving some success in the fight against HIV/Aids in the Bugiri district of Uganda, by working with the community and ... via Guardian Unlimited

" Another privately-owned radio station, Central Broadcasting Service , said the boat was carrying seven tonnes of fish and other cargo, and the victims were mostly women fish traders." Kampala, Feb 12 At least ... via Nerve News

It's great that Tea Leoni, Madonna, Timbaland, and Alicia Keys can take time out of their shiny lives tonight to attend a fundraiser for UNICEF. via Gawker

“Our work is to enforce the law. People must learn to respect the law. He thought he would remain elusive but the law has caught up him”

KAMPALA Central MP Erias Lukwago was yesterday arrested over failure to respond to court summons. via AllAfrica.com

“Uganda is on a positive way forward. As you seek for national unity, you will find people have different opinions. I encourage people to engage in debate.”

German First Lady Eva Luise Hohler with the M-Lisada Brassband at the Kampala Music School yesterday Germany has pledged to open up its market and promote Ugandan products in Europe tax free. via AllAfrica.com

“We are moving tents to people that will need them and we will provide relief maize because some people will lose their maize when the spillway gates are opened”

The dam is the main power generation point for Zambia and Zimbabwe and supplies some electricity to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. via Gulf Times

MORE than half the Nakivubo wetland in Kampala has already been degraded by encroachers. via New Vision

Pan Africa Life Insurance is ready to compensate policyholders who may have died in the political violence experienced in parts of the country even as it prepares to roll out nine more branches around the ... via AllAfrica.com

A somber mood engulfed Molo constituency as 14 victims of the post election violence killed in Molo farm were finally laid to rest. via Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

“As at the end of the year 2007, Malawi's teledensity was 8.12 percent and we want to implement programmes that would see the sector gorw”

A delegation of eleven government officials from Malawi is in Uganda for a study tour on the implementation of information communication technology . via AllAfrica.com

“The oil storage facility to be built in Nsanje will help our country to hold reserves of up to 90 days and help resolve problems of fuel shortages that (we) have had in recent months”

Lilongwe * Qatar plans to build a $150m fuel storage facility in Malawi to help boost the African country's reserves, Malawian Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe said yesterday. via The Peninsula

Ugandan rebel fighters of Lord Resistance Army wait for transport on arrival at Entebbe international airport, 47km southwest of capital Kampala, November 30, 2007. via AlertNet

Attorney Kanjabanga faces theft charges The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has launched charges of theft, forgery, obtaining by false pretences and numerous counts of money laundering against Gaborone ... via Mmegi

A reader sent me this article from the Taipei Times with the delightful tale of a Malawian government official who allegedly pocketed the cash from China : A Malawian official who played a key role in the ... via The View from Taiwan

“Our prayer is that the rains should subside as soon as possible.”

Torrential rains have drowned Zambia's hopes of a fourth consecutive bumper maize harvest and there is still no sign that the rain will ease off as the country comes to grips with the extent of the damage. via AllAfrica.com

“Our airline flies to Dubai and we hope that we can carry the flight onward to Doha”

Chimuntha Banda, S Gauhar Ali Zaidi, Goodall E Gondwe and Mohammed Sidik Mia. DOHA * A Qatari firm will be building a fuel storage facility and setting up pipelines in the landlocked African nation of Malawi, ... via The Peninsula

Report on legislation combating hunger in Malawi, mp3 - download Listen to Report on legislation combating hunger in Malawi, mp3 In Malawi, the government, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders have ... via Voice of America

“He asked him whether he needed assistance”

Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kuteesa has said he will resign his job if accusations that Uganda has sent soldiers to politically troubled Kenya are proved true. via AllAfrica.com

“I said to God, something is wrong with this picture”

Rosetta Swinton, a Medical University of South Carolina nurse, is going on a two-year mission trip to Malawi in southeast Africa to be a school nurse and help build a children's clinic. via The Post and Courier