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<title>NATSAVE targets farmers in new loan scheme</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; National&nbsp;Savings and Credit Bank (NATSAVE) has launched a hire purchase loan facility with an initial investment of K2 billion targeted at small-scale farmers.Speaking soon after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Zamcapitol Enterprises Limited, NATSAVE managing director Leonard Mwanza said the facility would significantly raise productivity levels among the country&rsquo;s small-scale farming community...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi could go hungry after all</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Malawi's&nbsp;president, Bingu wa Mutharika, who also heads the country's agricultural Ministry, reacted to the Famine Early Warning Network's (FEWS) warning that some districts in southern region will be affected by drought. President Mutharika has assured the country there would be enough food.
"We may even produce a surplus, but lower than what we produced in the past three years," Mutharika said...]]></description>
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<title>Rural communities jointly care for orphans </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; At the age of 66, village headman Kamwala of Dedza district in central Malawi is starting to feel the effects of ageing. He gets tired easily and needs frequent naps but says he cannot afford this luxury. He and his wife are caregivers to a one-year-old orphan.Despite having ten children of his own, who are between eight and 34 years old, the village chief has taken in three orphans below the age of eight over the past five years...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi tea output, revenue fall on dry spell</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Malawi's tea output fell more than 40 percent between January and February while revenue dipped by over 25 percent compared with the same period last year due to a dry spell, an industry group said on Monday.
"During the same period (January to February) last year, we sold 3.6 billion Malawi kwacha, but this year we have earned 2...]]></description>
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<title>Union: Low tobacco prices will hurt workers </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Farmers are unhappy with the government decision to lower minimum prices for tobacco at the Auction Floors, arguing that it will affect the returns from the tobacco at national level.
Tobacco Control Commission announced last week that prices will average $2 per kilogramme for the best grade of burley tobacco, which is fifteen American cents (15 cents) lower than that of last year...]]></description>
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<title>Power cuts cost Malawi $215 mln/yr, hurt investment</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Erratic power supply in Malawi is costing the southern African nation about $215 million a year and deters new investment, an economist said on Monday.
Alex Gomani, chief economist at the Millennium Challenge Account-Malawi (MCA-M), a U.S. bilateral development fund, said the loss represents 4...]]></description>
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<title>Experts meet over looming water crisis in Africa </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nairobi:&nbsp; Players in the water sector from Africa meet in Kampala this week for talks on how to meet the continent&rsquo;s needs as the commodity comes under renewed pressure from climate change and rising demand.
The 15th African International Water Congress and Exhibition, which started on Monday, comes at a time when most countries are struggling to meet demand because of climate change effects, lack of resources to repair water infrastructure, and poor planning by government-backed providers...]]></description>
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<title>Patrilineal inheritance prevents women's access to land  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.Gondwe&rsquo;s brother-in-law took over the ownership of the land the day of the funeral, because tradition dictates that only a man has the right to own land...]]></description>
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<title>Zambezi river reaches alarming levels</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Heavy&nbsp;rains in south-eastern Angola and western Zambia caused the Zambezi River to rise to nearly nine metres at Chavuma in Zambia over the weekend with floods expected to reach Katima Mulilo by the middle of this month.
The Zambezi River continued to rise steadily at Katima Mulilo and reached 5...]]></description>
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<title>Kenya and Malawi strengthen trade ties</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kenya and Malawi governments have been challenged to chart the way towards accomplishing the task of realizing the full potential of the business opportunities that exist between the two countries. Noting that trade and investment potential between the two countries is immerse, both Malawian Minister for Trade and Industry Eunice Kazembe and her Kenyan counterpart Amos Kimunya emphasized on the need to develop and strengthen bilateral trade between the two countries for the benefit of the citizens...]]></description>
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<title>Network will bolster African fisheries research</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; A new African network is aiming to increase the number of aquaculture and fisheries scientists on the continent and boost its dwindling fish stocks.&nbsp; The Fisheries University Network (FishNet), led by the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), was launched at the Bunda College of Agriculture in Malawi this month (15 February)...]]></description>
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<title>SADC Council of Ministers meeting</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Luanda:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Angola will attend the meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday and Friday.
Speaking to Angop&nbsp;(Wednesday) before leaving to attend the meeting in the neighbouring country, State Secretary for Industry Kiala Gabriel said the member States would discuss issues concerning regional economic integration, trade protocol, customs union and community visas...]]></description>
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<title>Extra money allocated for drought relief </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Blantyre:&nbsp; Maize farmer Anita Yunus has lived near the Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi for over 30 years. And she does not remember there ever being a drought in the area.&nbsp; While there have been four severe droughts in Malawi in the past 25 years, the Mulanje region was not affected by these...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi:  Catapults against cholera</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lolingwe:&nbsp; By this time last year, Mkanda had recorded 14 cholera cases as rainy season descended on central Malawi. This year, there has not been a single report of cholera."There has been a reduction in open defecation. The people of Mkanda have fully adopted the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach where they are discouraging the common practice of defecating in the open," said Thomas Mchipha, Water, Sanitation Health and Environment Coordinator for Mchinji district...]]></description>
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<title>Union: Farmers exploiting workers </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Workers at tobacco farms are crying out for help, saying they are being exploited but nobody is paying any attention.&nbsp; In Kasungu and Mchinji, farm owners, who include powerful politicians, are said to have changed the verbal contracts they have with workers, offering the K6,000 per 100 kilograms for a bale of tobacco which can fetch an average of K55,000 at the Auction Floors...]]></description>
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