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Enforcing competition would ease food price hikes in east and southern Africa

Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in east and southern Africa are getting a raw deal. To succeed they need fair and integrated regional markets. Research by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development has highlighted the need for better integration of regional economies as a step towards food…

The Conversation

Tired and Sad, Mane and Salah Head to Africa for AFCON Qualifying

Premier League stars Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah head to Africa for 2023 Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers weary and disappointed after a 70-match season that ended with Liverpool's Champions League final loss. Mane-inspired defending champions Senegal host Benin and visit Rwanda in Group L and should secure maximum points…

Asharq Al-Awsat

S2,EP 19: Kenya's disappearing donkeys, Bamenda recycling in wartime & Malawi's modern chief

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Kenya, donkeys disappearing off the streets in the rural areas are causing havoc for residents; some in Bamenda, Cameroon, are trying to improve waste disposal and recycling amidst the Anglophone…

Radio France Internationale

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Pfizer To Sell 23 Patented Drugs, Vaccines At Lower Prices To Poorer Countries

Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) will sell over 20 patent-protected drugs and vaccines at not-for-profit prices to 45 of the world's poorest countries. Under the program, Pfizer will begin shipping the medicines first to Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda before the end of this year, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview. This will…

Benzinga

Malawi investigating former diplomats for allegedly selling state properties

The Malawi government is investigating some of its former diplomats who served the country’s embassies in Namibia, South Africa and the United Kingdom for allegedly selling state assets ,including houses, and failing to account for the proceeds of the sales.

Radio France Internationale

Mozambique confirms first wild poliovirus case in 30 years

Case in child in Tete province follows detection of similar strain in Malawi in February, officials say

The Guardian - UK

VIDEO: Mum-Believable: Incredible Mum, 23, Who Runs Three Schools And Fosters Over 30 Children

Meet the incredible 23-year-old woman who runs three schools, an orphanage and fosters over 30 Children.

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Mozambique declares polio outbreak linked to Pakistan

Health authorities in Mozambique have declared a polio outbreak after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province had been paralyzed by the disease

The Independent UK

Debt distress in Africa: biggest problems, and ways forward

The COVID pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on Africa’s sovereign debt situation. Currently, 22 countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. This means that African governments are struggling to pay the debts that they incurred on behalf of their states. For example,…

The Conversation

‘Second chance’: In Malawi, a teacher’s salary runs an orphanage

Two-thirds of Malawian children do not complete their primary education, one of the highest rates on the continent.

Al Jazeera

Samson’s sacrifice: Malawian chief saves his community from floods

In Malawi, floods have become more frequent and intense in recent years and the damage has been more devastating.

Al Jazeera

South Africa floods: Malawian migrants decry gov’t neglect

Migrants say they are stranded with little support from the authorities in their home country or their adopted one.

Al Jazeera

Malawi: How scientists mapped mosquito breeding grounds using drones

Using an innovative, 21st-century way to destroy a centuries-old problem, scientists at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust use drones to map out where mosquitoes breed in an effort to identify and destroy malaria-causing mosquitoes.

Radio France Internationale

‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp

Hundreds at Dzaleka camp told they are no longer eligible for food supplies from the World Food Programme

The Guardian - UK

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The face of modern slavery in Malawi: Håvard Bjelland’s best photograph

‘I stayed in a tent nearby, waking up at 4am to begin the hour-long walk towards the pits. By the time we arrived, the miners had already been working for hours’

Radio France Internationale

Malawi farmers face an uphill battle to diversify crops

Faced with the rising cost of fertiliser and effects of climate change, farmers in Malawi are being encouraged to diversify their crops to become less dependent on maize, the country's staple food. Those working the land are also struggling to bounce back from time lost due to Covid lockdowns.

The Independent UK

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa

A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi

Al Jazeera

Malawi begins nationwide polio immunisation campaign

In February, the southern African country recently recorded its first polio case in 30 years.

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Malawi launches polio vaccine drive after first case in 30 years

The campaign against wild poliovirus aims to reach more than 23 million children under five years old

The Guardian - UK

Millions of children to be vaccinated for polio in Africa after Malawi detects case

First case of wild polio detected in Malawi for 30 years prompts emergency rollout of vaccinations in five African countries

Radio France Internationale

S2, EP14: South Africa's comics try to bounce back; breaking stereotypes in Gambia; Malawi's farmers deal with climate crisis

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In South Africa, as comedy clubs reopen comedians are juggling between their live audience and their online one; from Gambia, young women are training to install solar panels to help other…

Radio France Internationale

Challenges remain for Malawi’s Cyclone Ana victims

Mother of six Mwandida Matias, 39, recalls the night they were hit by violent storms in Chikawa district, southern Malawi. People were shouting, others beating drums to alert people. By the time she managed to get out of the house with her children, the water was already up to her…

Radio France Internationale

S2, EP13: Cyclone aftermath in Malawi; antimicrobial crop resistance in Kenya; Nigerian artist leaves city for tranquility

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent, with our African correspondents. In Malawi, those affected by Cyclone Ana are struggling to get back on their feet; from Kenya, farmers are combatting antimicrobial resistance in crops; and in Nigeria, an artist leaves the…

Radio France Internationale

Malawi to launch polio immunization campaign after one case found

The Malawi government announced Thursday that it would launch a nationwide polio vaccination campaign next month after it was discovered that a four-year-old girl had contracted the disease, the first case of polio in Malawi in 30 years. President Lazarus Chakwera has declared a national emergency.

Reuters

Malawi detects polio, first wild case in Africa in over 5 years

Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

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