About: Malawi
Search for new urban water sparks conflict in parched Malawi
With increasingly prolonged droughts threatening worsening water shortages, Malawi is moving to shore up water supplies to its cities, including building new long-distance pipelines and dams.
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi to pilot GSK malaria vaccine from 2018
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world's first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas as part of real-life trials, the World Health Organization said today (24 April).
Gebrselassie calls for more help for El Niño-hit Africa
Haile Gebrselassie, the world’s greatest-ever long-distance runner, has warned that the world is in danger of “forgetting a huge emergency” in Ethiopia and other African states struggling to respond to shortages after the most extreme El Nino in half a century.
European Parliament speaks out against agricultural colonialism in Africa
MEPs have called on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to radically alter its mission. The Alliance currently pushes African countries to replicate the intensive agricultural practices employed in many developed countries. EURACTIV France reports.
Malawi discovers new mineral deposits, eyes investors
Impoverished Malawi announced yesterday (20 August) that new mineral deposits had been discovered in a $30-million geophysical survey sponsored by the World Bank and the European Union.
Addis Ababa: Deals at high levels that don’t deliver for the people
The Addis deal is looking likely to disappoint many of us, because rich countries are pushing to be left off the hook, writes Donne Cameron. VideoPromoted content
Banda: EU support was key in fight against corruption in Malawi
At the Women In Parliaments Global Forum Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, former Malawian President Joyce Hilda Banda spoke exclusively with EURACTIV's Rick Zednik about the support she received from EU officials in rebuilding her country's economy. VideoPromoted content
Banda: ‘We have failed the women of this world’
In an exclusive interview with EURACTIV's Rick Zednik, former Malawian President Joyce Hilda Banda urged world leaders to push more women into leadership positions, as they focus more 'on issues that affect other women and children'.
Ann Cotton: Educating millions in Africa by inspiring sustainable change
For someone who gave up teaching two decades ago, Ann Cotton educates an awful lot of children. Since she began her Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) in 1993, she has supported 3 million children in five countries to stay in school and will support another million over the next five years.