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Blantyre (Malawi)

Type: City

Name: Blantyre (Malawi)

Country: Malawi

Latitude: -15.79

Longitude: 34.990002

population: 584,870

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Southern African Development Community

LAM to fly to all regional capitals by 2017 [NEW]

(2013-05-25) Mozambique Airlines (LAM) has announced that by2017 it will be flying to all the capital cities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).This aspiration was expressed by LAM’s Chief Executive Officer, Marlene Manave, during the ... [Published Club of Mozambique - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Mozambique, Southern African Development Community, Nampula, European Union

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Bingu wa Mutharika

Malawi to continue ‘painful medication’

Blantyre, Malawi - President Joyce Banda's government vowed to stick to unpopular austerity policies Friday, even as an influx of donor cash allows spending to increase by a third in Malawi.Finance Minister Ken Lipenga doubled down on IMF-backed reforms, ... [Published IOL - May 24 2013]

Entities: Malawi, Ken Lipenga, Donor, Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre (Malawi)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Malawi child with male and female organs suffer discrimination: CHRR calls for govt’s swift action

Featured National Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) is making a strong appeal to government authorities to swiftly act on a case of a nine-year-old child who was born with both male and female sexual organs in the central region lakeshore ... [Published Nyasa Times - May 24 2013]

Entities: Malawi, Salima (Malawi), Blantyre (Malawi)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Malawi multi-faith group PAC elects Bishop Tengatenga as new chair, Fr Mulomole spokeman

Featured National Malawi quasi-religious organisation the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has elected Right Reverend James$ Tengatenga, the Anglican Bishop$ of the Diocese of Southern Malawi, as its new chairperson.Tengatenga was elected Thursday at the ... [Published Nyasa Times - May 24 2013]

Entities: Malawi, Blantyre (Malawi), Elections

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Joyce Banda

In cost-cutting move, Malawi sells its presidential jet

A buyer has been found for Malawi's 14-seat presidential jet, which is being sold to save money.BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi's cost-cutting president is selling her predecessor's jet.Cabinet clerk Ernest Katchetche said Wednesday that the government has ... [Published MSN News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Malawi, Tornado, Joyce Banda, iPad 2, Walt Disney

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

EU beaches get clean bill of health

BRUSSELS: The vast majority of some 22,000 swimming beaches in the EU are clean and safe, the European Environment Agency said yesterday.The EEA annual report for 2012 showed the water met the minimum standards required for bathing at 94 percent of all ... [Published Qatar Peninsula - May 22 2013]

Entities: European Union, European Environment Agency, Nador (Morocco)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Multichoice

MultiChoice hypes ‘The Chase’

As the Big Brother Africa (BBA) season 8 dubbed The Chase gets underway on Sunday in South Africa, MultiChoice Malawi has lined up several activities aimed at offering the best to the people.MultiChoice will be having a local launch in Lilongwe which ... [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 21 2013]

Entities: Multichoice, Malawi, Lilongwe

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Evidence of improving antiretroviral therapy treatment delays: an analysis of eight years of programmatic outcomes in Blantyre, Malawi

Impressive achievements have been made towards achieving universal coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the effects of rapid ART scale-up on delays between HIV diagnosis and treatment initiation have not been well ... [Published BMC - May 21 2013]

Entities: Blantyre (Malawi), antiretroviral therapy, Malawi

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Zambia to hail Dr David Livingstone’s legacy

THE 200th anniversary of Dr David Livingstone’s birth is to be marked in his beloved Zambia with a cultural festival to celebrate the Scots explorer’s contribution to the country, it was revealed yesterday. The bicentenary will be celebrated near Victoria ... [Published The Scotsman - May 21 2013]

Entities: Livingstone (Zambia), Zambia, David Livingstone

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

CCAP against women wearing miniskirts, exposing ‘valuable assets’: St Columba Church in Malawi

Featured National St Columba CCAP church of Blantyre City Presbytery of the Blantyre Synod, has warned women and young girls against wearing clothes that expose their ‘valuable assets’ such as breasts during wedding ceremonies $ and church service. Issuing ... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Blantyre (Malawi), Malawi

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Malawi inflation down by 0.6%:JB expects to average 7.4 % in 2014

Business Featured The National Statistical Office (NSO) says the year on year headline inflation for the month of April 2013 eased to 35.8 percent, representing a minimal 0.6 percentage points down on the month of March.The NSO said urban and rural rates ... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Malawi, Inflation, Lilongwe, Joyce Banda

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

ACB arrests MRA tax assessor and company auditor

The Anti-Corruption Bureau in conjunction with the police last week arrested Chifundo Makande, an auditor for Johnson and Wilson and Emmie Jiya a tax assessor for Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on corruption charges.In a press statement, Egrita Ndala, ... [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Blantyre (Malawi), Arrests

Quotes

...We have [built] more than 200 water points," she says, "and this year we are doing [additional] 41 and next year we [will build] 100. The project is also helping to build latrines in individual homes."

In Malawi, an NGO Saves Rural Dwellers from Waterborne Illnesses [Published VOA News - 12 hours ago]

"Signs are that the patient is getting better and is on the road to recovery" he said, presenting a $1.5 billion budget

Malawi to continue ‘painful medication’ [Published IOL - May 24 2013]

"It is not a genuine defence but a sham meant merely to delay the justice of this matter. It is evidently frivolous and vexatious and should accordingly be struck out" the application says

Mvula sues police over arrest [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 22 2013]

Mr McVicar said: "Livingstone’s story is endlessly fascinating and children love it. There are just so many angles to him."

Zambia to hail Dr David Livingstone’s legacy [Published The Scotsman - May 21 2013]

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In cost-cutting move, Malawi sells its presiden... [Published MSN News - May 23 2013]
Mvula sues police over arrest [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 22 2013]
EU beaches get clean bill of health [Published Qatar Peninsula - May 22 2013]
MultiChoice hypes ‘The Chase’ [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 21 2013]
ACB line up 30 witnesses against Malawi ex- lea... [Published Nyasa Times - May 21 2013]
Early infant diagnosis of HIV facing challenges... [Published Nyasa Times - May 21 2013]
Evidence of improving antiretroviral therapy tr... [Published BMC - May 21 2013]
Evidence of improving antiretroviral therapy tr... [Published 7thSpace - May 21 2013]
Zambia to hail Dr David Livingstone’s legacy [Published The Scotsman - May 21 2013]
Malawi already has tea auction [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 20 2013]
President Banda lauds labour union movement in ... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]
CCAP against women wearing miniskirts, exposing... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]
Malawi inflation down by 0.6%:JB expects to ave... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]
Malawi ex-pres. Muluzi graft case: Judge allows... [Published Nyasa Times - May 20 2013]
Ex-MYPs claim corruption in payout [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 20 2013]
K7m disappears at MPC [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 19 2013]
ACB arrests MRA tax assessor and company auditor [Published Malawi Daily Times - May 19 2013]
Harry Chiume laid to rest: Pictorial [Published Nyasa Times - May 19 2013]

Blogs

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Joyce Banda has bigger problems than Madonna [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 24 2013] The historian Margery Perham once wrote that “the basic difficulty” with the British colonial technique of indirect rule, of which she was a major architect, was “the great gap between the culture of rulers and ruled.” “People do not understand what ...
Awkward in Malawi or Madonna, Missionary Positi... [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 15 2013] By Maniza Naqvi I spot a café, called, "99% God's Plan." It is on the side of the road which goes straight from Lilongwe, the capital, passed the sprawling Monsanto complex, passed the tobacco auction facility, passed the gigantic silos ...
Malawian Government Harshly Criticizes Madonna [Published The China Blog - Apr 10 2013] (BLANTYRE, Malawi) — Malawi’s government issued an angry attack on the pop diva Madonna on Wednesday, alleging that she expected to be granted VIP treatment during her controversial tour to this southern African country last week. A strongly worded statement ...
Malawian Government Harshly Criticizes Madonna [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Apr 10 2013] (BLANTYRE, Malawi) — Malawi’s government issued an angry attack on the pop diva Madonna on Wednesday, alleging that she expected to be granted VIP treatment during her controversial tour to this southern African country last week. A strongly worded statement ...
Strike Ends in Malawi with Pay Rise [Published The China Blog - Feb 22 2013] (BLANTYRE, Malawi) — The Malawi government has agreed to raise public workers’ salaries by 60 percent, ending a two-week old strike, a union leader said. Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) president Eliah Kamphinda Banda told a press conference in the capital, ...

Press Releases

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Inventors Honored for Bringing Life-Saving Heal... [Published Business Wire - May 01 2013]