Last year, I created a  list of scholarships for Malawi and neighboring countries. These scholarships mainly cater for study abroad or in other countries in Africa. But recently, I stumbled on the Soko Fund, which is aimed at helping female students at a Malawian University to obtain a degree and contribute to the development of [...]

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In the absence of national ID cards, the government of Malawi has resorted to using voter registration cards to disburse fertilizer subsidy coupons. So far, reports are indicating that there is less coupon fraud with the new system.

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The Big Issue, a street paper project, was launched in Malawi on January 24, 2009. This project is being implemented by Culture Awakening Society (CAS) in partnership with the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) in Scotland with funding from the Scottish government and Ubuntu Trading Company in the United Kingdom.

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As governments, organizations and well-wishers continue to work very hard to provide life-prolonging Anti Retroviral (ARV) drugs to AIDS patients, some folks in Malawi have other ideas. According to the Malawi News article of 3 November 2009, ARVs are being used to distil locally brewed liquor popularly known as ‘kachasu’ in Thyolo District. These drugs are also [...]

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Gabriel Kondesi, a 21-year-old villager who was arrested and jailed for operating a pirate radio in Mulanje, Malawi “stayed with thugs” in jail for about three days. He was released after his father and well-wishers paid the MK50,000 fine.

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