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MALAWI: Bumpy road to economic recovery
18 May 2012
(IRIN
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A sizeable devaluation of Malawi’s currency, aimed at reinvigorating the economy and wooing back international donors, has triggered steep increases in the price of basic goods and pushed many Malawians deeper into poverty.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95482/MALAWI-Bumpy-road-to-economic-recovery
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FOOD: Power to the people!
15 May 2012
(IRIN
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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95459/FOOD-Power-to-the-people
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MALAWI: Dream fades for inland port project
10 May 2012
(IRIN
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Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi’s southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: “The dream becomes reality. Nsanje Port opens October 2010.” But those who go to the port will find little more than a concrete quay with a couple of dozen mooring posts, and a few fishermen manoeuvring crude dug-out canoes through the murky brown waters of the Shire River.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95438/MALAWI-Dream-fades-for-inland-port-project
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MALAWI: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"
26 April 2012
(IRIN
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Dorothy Dyton, her husband and seven children used to make a living farming just over a hectare near the town of Bangula in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95363/MALAWI-Without-land-reform-small-farmers-become-trespassers
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MALAWI: Hunger deepens in the south
12 April 2012
(IRIN
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Mary Lyford, a widow and subsistence farmer from Mbande village in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District, has seven mouths to feed, besides her own, and little idea how she will sustain her family over the next 12 months.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95276/MALAWI-Hunger-deepens-in-the-south
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: TB preventative therapy scorecard
23 March 2012
(IRIN
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of HIV-positive people globally. Almost 15 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended that people living with HIV be given isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT), to prevent active TB, but national implementation of IPT has been slow.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95141/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-TB-preventative-therapy-scorecard
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AFRICA: Reverse migration slowing urbanization rates
15 March 2012
(IRIN
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Twenty years ago, South Africa’s cities were braced for a massive influx of rural migrants following the scrapping of apartheid-era pass laws which had restricted black people’s movements. Cities such as Johannesburg and Durban have indeed grown, but not at the phenomenal rates projected and others have hardly grown at all.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95085/AFRICA-Reverse-migration-slowing-urbanization-rates
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HEALTH: Spending your way out of TB infection
17 February 2012
(IRIN
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A hundred years ago there was no way to treat tuberculosis (TB) except with rest, fresh air and nutritious food. Forty years later the discovery of antibiotics transformed treatment and TB has been a curable disease for more than half a century, but the disease still kills nearly 4,000 people a day. The goals set by the World Health Organization (WHO) to halve the incidence of TB by 2015 and eliminate it as a public health problem by 2050 seem far out of reach.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94889/HEALTH-Spending-your-way-out-of-TB-infection
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MALAWI: Government finally moves on male circumcision
10 February 2012
(IRIN
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Clement Zulu never thought he would be circumcised. A Christian from the north of Malawi, Zulu was among millions of Malawians who believed the practice was a ritual for the southern Yao people, who are mostly Muslims.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94832/MALAWI-Government-finally-moves-on-male-circumcision
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MALAWI: Rising prices and looming maize shortages
9 February 2012
(IRIN
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Malawi’s maize-growing central and southern regions have not had good rains, prompting concerns about possible shortages of the staple in the coming months.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94825/MALAWI-Rising-prices-and-looming-maize-shortages
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