Africa : As Malawi Takes Over Africa (AllAfrica.com)

Lagos — OUTLINING his priorities, as the newly-elected chairman of the fifty-three-nation African Union (AU) the president of the small southern African country of Malawi, Bingu Wa Mutharika, told his fellow heads of state on Monday, February 1: "We have decided to focus on food security, transport infrastructure and energy as priorities for driving the agenda for this year."

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-02-08 17:53 Malawi approves extra $76 mln budget for drought woes (Interactive Investor)

LILONGWE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Malawi's parliament approved an 11.5 billion kwacha ($76.26 million) supplementary budget on Monday to aid families hit hard by a drought and support its new commitments after taking over the African Union chairmanship. The extra budget has increased the 2009/10 national budget to 269.5 billion kwacha from the initial 258 billion kwacha. "This extra budget will help ...

Malawi Man Jailed for Promoting Gay Rights (The Advocate)

A Malawi man was arrested over the weekend for putting up posters supporting homosexuality. Twenty-one-year-old Peter Sawali was putting up posters that read, “Gay Rights Are Human Rights.” Homosexuality is illegal in the southern African nation.

Madonna's new Malawi school drives villagers off their lands (New Kerala)

London, February 8 : African villagers have claimed they are being forced to relocate to give way to a new school in Malawi funded by Madonna's Raising Malawi charity.

Malawi man arrested for posting gay rights posters (MalaysiaNews.net)

Peter Sawali arrested for disseminating posters promoting gay rights Homosexuality is considered illegal in Malawi Arrest of same-sex Malawian couple has sparked outrage from human rights groups

Malawi man arrested for posting gay rights posters (CNN)

Malawian police have arrested a man for allegedly putting up posters supporting homosexuality, which is illegal in the southern African nation.

ICAO classifies RP as a significant safety concern along with 10 countries (Manila Bulletin via Yahoo! Philippines News)

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has classified the Philippines, together with 10 other countries - Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Congo, Djibouti, Kazhakstan, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia as a "Significant Safety Concern" in the past two months because to date the government has not resolved issues to ensure that its air safety oversight and security systems are ...

Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears (AP via Yahoo! News)

High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday.

Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade' (BBC News)

Many Africans with malaria are getting low-grade drugs, according to a WHO-backed study of Uganda, Senegal and Madagascar.

Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade' (BBC News)

Many Africans with malaria are getting low-grade drugs, according to a study of Uganda, Senegal and Madagascar.