As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.
Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by.
A seven-member delegation from Malawi visited the country last week to learn from Rwanda's experience in public sector investment planning.
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is likely to take over African Union chairmanship from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next January, African Union sources have said.
Government has called for the expeditious implementation of measures that promote trade between Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Malawi Lost 2 -0 to the United Arab Emirates in a Under-17 World Cup Group E match played at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano on Monday, continuing Africa's poor run in the competition.
The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, confirmed on Tuesday that the Malawian authorities have refused to allow polling stations for the Mozambican general elections to be opened anywhere on Malawian soil, outside of Mozambican diplomatic buildings.
As Susan Muonanji and other vendors scrambled around one of the many transport busses to sell cabbages and tomatoes at a market along one of Malawi's key roads, a national budget session had just started in parliament some 100 kilometres away in the capital city, Lilongwe.
The government of Malawi has not allowed Mozambicans to vote except in the consulates and embassies, according to Felizberto Naife at a STAE press conference this morning.
African newcomers Malawi will make a little piece of history today when they play their very first game in a FIFA competition. Their opponents at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano are Group E rivals United Arab Emirates.
The Malawian government has publicly admitted that a unit of its police force did indeed invade Mozambican territory in August, and destroyed a police post, equipment and personal belongings of the Mozambican border guard in Caloca, Ngauma district, in the northern province of Niassa.
