The Daily IIJ

Malawian married women have joined Tips for Married Women, a network of married women in UK and South Africa that seeks to bolster marriages by offering advice and also assisting in other problems. The network has 1130 membership worldwide and has three administrators, for Malawi its Evelyn Nyirenda, South Africa its Connie wa Donnie and [...]

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The Peoples’ Development Movement (PDM) says it is bigger than any of its members regardless of name, financial status or creed because it is more than a Political Party. PDM Spokesperson Msenga Mlungu said PDM is a movement therefore like all political movements its survival is based on commitment to particular ideals that transcend individuals [...]

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Malawi needs transport professionals so as to come up with logistics solutions as Malawi is a land lock country, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (Malawi Section) has said. The Institute noted that in countries like Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport forms an integral part of all [...]

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Berlin, Germany. “I take my status as a person living positively with HIV as a huge gift from God. It demands of me to see that I have an inherent dignity as God’s creation,” Reverend Johannes-Petrus Mokgethi-Health said. A very unusual attitude from a Reverend as Church representatives tends to see HIV infections as a [...]

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Malawi is among 12 countries in Africa that have significantly reduced HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic, according to the UNAIDS 2011 report. The report was unveiled during an HIV High level and Experts Conference held in the Germany’s Capital Berlin under the theme “Health. Right. Now! HIV Prevention without Barriers”. UNAIDS Executive [...]

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The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) is taking farmers’ concerns about climate change to COP 17 in Durban to call for the global negotiations to put agriculture firmly on the climate change agenda and establish a work program that will outline and coordinate the necessary responses for the sector. SACAU has been granted [...]

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Berlin, Germany – Impoverished Malawi will for the first time face globally scrutiny on how it is tackling its endemic corruption following its inclusion in the Global Corruption Barometer 2011, according to Transparency International (TI).

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Berlin, Germany – Transparency International, the global civil society corruption busting organization, says it has set its eyes on Malawi for one of its nascent national chapters. Apart from Malawi, Transparency International is looking on another impoverished country in Africa called Benin. This development means TI will now have 20 national chapters from the initial [...]

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Berlin, Germany – Global Campaign for Education has asked the World Bank to honour its 2010 pledge of committing an additional US$750 million funding for basic education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia countries as a way of assisting them reach the education MDGs by 2015.

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Berlin, Germany – The so called Pirates, a new entry in the Berlin Federal State Parliament, may have broken the jinx in the Germany political scene by becoming perhaps the only party so far without a clearly defined agenda, ideology or leadership structure. Similarly in Malawi, the 40 or so political parties may borrow a [...]

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