MALAWI

Malawians have faced severe shortages and other economic problems since the IMF drastically reduced lending facilities last year.

Madonna is scheduled to perform in Paris on Bastille Day (July 14) and later in the coastal city of Nice in August.

A report on Wednesday reveals that child marriage has become less prevalent in South Asia over the last two decades, but not for brides of all age groups. Adolescents over 15 are still marrying at about the same rate as they did two decades ago.

A report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Program argues that Africa must increase its agricultural productivity in order to keep up with promising rates of economic growth.

The sudden devaluation has led to some panic-buying by consumers in Malawi, seeking to purchase basic goods.

Three days after being sworn into office, Malawi's first female president Joyce Banda is hard at work trying to bring the African country back to a place of economic stability.

Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika died following a heart attack on Thursday, according to government officials.

Seventy eight year old Malawi President Mutharika died after a heart attack.

U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc. plans to open 130 new KFC stores in Africa this year, bringing its presence on the continent to 1,000 restaurants, the Business Day newspaper in South Africa said on Friday, citing a senior executive.

Numbering in the tens of thousands, Sidis are generally very poor and generally remain isolated from “mainstream” Indians.

Bashir is regarded as a war criminal in the West and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges he committed genocide in connection with the mass murder of people in the Darfur.

Malawi in East Africa is one of the poorest nations on earth, with more than 50 percent of the population living in poverty.

Local business men in Malawi are naming their products after names like Osama Bin Ladin, Obama and Bush which is helping them to get unique identity capable of boosting sales.

Mozambique has no plans to impose local ownership requirements on its mining industry and it will not seek overly high government stakes in mining ventures that could deter investors, its national director of mines said.

The board of Brazil's Vale has approved a $6 billion expansion of its Moatize coal project in Mozambique to lift output to 22 million tonnes per year from the 11 million tonnes it expects to mine initially, a company official said.

Nigerian legislators started hearings this week on a bill that would criminalise same-sex marriage and could make it punishable by five years in jail.

According to reports, of the 54 nations of the Commonwealth, three-fourths (41) have laws which ban homosexuality.

He may be related to one of the richest and most powerful celebrities in the world, but Anthony Ciccone, otherwise known as Madonna's brother, is homeless on the streets of Michigan.

Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.

Malawi will allow Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir into the country for a regional trade summit starting on Friday and has no plans to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a senior government official said on Thursday.

The Archbishop Bishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wants to meet Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during his visit to Africa and call on him to end a violent suppression of the Anglican Church and its priests in the country.