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Malawi at the crossroads
(SCOPE/General)
... has ever produced since Madonna and her serial adoptions. Of course our gory HIV/AIDS statistics and natural disasters like floods, hunger and earthquakes do put us in the world perspective once in a while. ...
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Week in Review
(SCOPE/Review)
... to 200,000 dead and many more destitute. Raphael Tenthani was quick with 'Mutharika feels Haiti's pain' when the president, on behalf Malawi which knows the ills earthquakes, sent 150,000 tonnes of rice ...
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea
(AP)
(News/Top News)
AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has rattled the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea. ...
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Petra, Govt. bicker over KA relief
(Malawi National/Politics)
... for Karonga earthquake victims". Relief items are not reaching most of the targeted people, he said. Hold your fire, says Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs Lilian Ng’oma. She says Chibambo ...
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UNFPA: Keep making, having babies clean
(Life and Style/Health)
KARONGA--Earthquakes or no earthquakes, reproduction has to go on and UNFPA, a specialised UN agency in reproductive health, says it has an obligation in ensuring that people have access to reproductive ...
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Rev.: Karonga disaster God's blessing
(Life and Style/Religion)
... Karonga and Chitipa earthquakes that have cost at least four lives, injuring scores and leaving thousands of people homeless in the two districts in Northern Malawi as a blessing in disguise, saying that ...
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Dossani, Bingu give big to KA victims
(Malawi National/District)
LILONGWE--The list is out. Many heard the call but not all responded. Dossani Trust and President Bingu wa Mutharika top the list of givers to the earthquake victims in Malawi's northern district of ...
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Trash, Govt says of mining report
(Malawi National/District)
... earthquake that would damage the mining company's operations would likely release toxic substances into Lake Malawi, a fresh water body that provides a director John Capel said. He claims that the report ...
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AIDS fight in the red, more money needed
(Malawi National/Society)
... Earthquake victims while another 950 million will be set aside to mitigate the effects of food shortage expected to hit most parts of the country after a persistent dry spell. The Finance Minister said ...
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Don't abuse aid, warns Bishop
(Malawi National/Society)
... beneficiaries of relief aid after their houses were damaged or collapsed due to a series of earthquakes that hit the district since December 6 last year have not been registered. "I have been reliably ...
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Mutharika feels Haiti's pain
(Malawi National/Politics)
... said Malawi identifies with the suffering of the people of Haiti because the southern African country was also hit by a series of earthquakes. A series of earthquakes, the biggest recording the magnitude ...
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Oil-rich Ghadaffi greasing palms?
(Malawi National/Politics)
... Maravi Post reported that a plane carrying relief items for the earthquake victims in Malawi was turned away. Malawi's transport minister Khombo Kachali said Libyan authorities had not properly informed ...
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Refugees give to trembler victims
(Malawi National/Society)
BLANTYRE--Can refugees give alms to fellow vulnerable people? Yes, they can, and that is what Rwandan refugees just did. They donated K700,000 to victims of the earthquakes in Karonga, which left ...
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Week in Review
(Malawi National/Politics)
TIME again to take a look at some of what we reported this week. We kick off on a sad note: earthquakes. Towards the end of the week, Felix Mponda reported the findings of two U.S. gurus on earthquakes ...
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Govt cracks whip on schools under par
(Malawi National/Society)
... where many schools collapsed during the recent earthquakes that incessantly rocked the district from December 6 last year. "Worse still," she said, "we have been instructed by the authorities not to ...
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Haiti quakes intense, Malawi's 'moderate'
(Malawi National/District)
LILONGWE--The string of earthquakes which hit the uranium mining district of Karonga were moderate and damage to the buildings was due to poor engineering, a two-man team of experts from the United States ...
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Zambia aids temblor victims
(Malawi National/District)
LILONGWE--Zambia has displayed her neighbouriness to Malawi by donating relief items worth K52 million and a cheque of K2.9 million to Karonga quake victims. Major Richard Kachingwe, Zambian High ...
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Need to share public airwaves equally
(Malawi National/Politics)
... these: the veep visiting earthquake victims in Karonga (in fact she was the first) to Professor Peter Mutharika attending a conference in India to which he was invited. Banda visiting rural clinics as ...
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Malawi refused Libyan plane to land
(Malawi National/District)
... that...it's not accepted anywhere." Kachali said the government was not aware of what the plane was carrying. "How do you know it was aid for the earthquake victims? The Libyan Government was supposed ...
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Week in Review
(Malawi National/Politics)
... had to steal some of India's thunder and went ahead to make a donation of $30,000 to earthquake victims in Karonga. The ambassador also pledged to pay for repairs to the Karonga-Chitipa road damaged during ...