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President Obama Needs to Make a Phone Call Against Genocide

Rafael Medoff | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Malawi, Joyce Banda, Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur Genocide, President Obama, Genocide, Icc, Ineragency Atrocities Prevention Board, International Criminal Court, World News

The leader of a small, deeply impoverished African country this week did more to combat genocide than all of President Obama's envoys, advisers, and boards put together.

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Malawi President's Vows To Repeal Gay Ban

AP | By RAPHAEL TENTHANI and DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: President Joyce Banda, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Video, Gay Rights, Bv-Politics, Africa, Global Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Malawi Gay Ban, Malawi President Joyce Banda, Gay Voices News

BLANTYRE, Malawi -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa i...

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The New York Times Is Played By Climate Deniers

Rev. Jim Ball | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Richard Lindzen, Justin Gillis, Victor Mughogho, Green Faith, Malawi, New York Times, Climate Change Denial, Poverty, Climate Change, Religion News

It's not a question of do nothing or spend a lot of money to avoid a catastrophe that may or may not materialize contingent upon the vicissitudes of clouds. That's what wizards of denial want you to fall for, and what the NY Times has helped to perpetuate.

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This Week's Top 10 News Stories From Africa

Africa.com | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malawi, Bv-Sunday, Egypt, Bingu Wa Mutharika Dead, Black Voices News

This week, we're reading about the rising pre-election clashes taking place in Egypt, as well as how Malawi avoided a possible coup after the death of...

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Turn Towards Africa

Seth Engel | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Mali, Women's Rights, Joyce Banda, Malawi, President Obama, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Foreign Policy, World News

Regardless of their short-term results, the dynamics of the seemingly dangerous democratization in the Middle East and Northern Africa contrast sharply with occurrences in sub-Saharan Africa.

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VP Becomes New Prez Of Malawi

AP | DONNA BRYSON and RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malawi, Malawi Joyce Banda, Joyce Banda, World News

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi has known rule by Britain and by a mercurial dictator. Over the last few days, however, it wasn't clear who was leadin...

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Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika Dies

Reuters | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malawi President, Malawi President Dead, Obituary, Malawi, Bingu Wa Mutharika Dead, Malawi President Heart Attack, Reuters, World News

By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE, April 6 (Reuters) - Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, medical...

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New Details On President's Health Emerge

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Bingu Wa Mutharika, Bingu Wa Mutharika Hospital, Malawi, Bingu Wa Mutharika Heart, Malawi President Hospital, Malawi President Heart, World News

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, doctors who treated him said Friday, as the troubled and i...

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Rumors Swirl That Malawi President Has Died

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malawi President, Malawi President Dead, Malawi, Bingu Wa Mutharika Dead, World News

Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika reportedly suffered a heart attack on Thursday morning. Conflicting reports have since emerged over whether Muth...

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Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi President, Hospitalized With Heart Problem

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika, Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malawi President, Malawi, Video, Malawi President Hospitalized, Malawi President Heart Condition, World News

UPDATE: Conflicting reports out of Africa have made the status of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika unclear. The BBC Africa reports that the African...

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Is Madonna Failing To Fulfill Her Promise To Bring Education To Malawi?

AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Buildon, Madonna-Malawai-Adoption, Malawi, Video, Trevor Neilson, George Chaponda, Charity, Madonna Malawi, Madonna, John Bisika, Madonna Charity, Impact News

BLANTYRE, Malawi -- Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, an impoverished and troubled southern Af...

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Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: L.A., Black Hawk Down, Markets, At, Liberals, Homeland, Pakistan, Somalia, Violence, Usc, Ethiopia, Reagan, Ozarks, U.S. Homeland, Jason Russell Invisible Children, Africa, Atrocities, Emma, Warlord, Crotty, Poverty, Madonna, Atrocity Tourism, SEAL Team 6, Terrorism, Malawi, Stuff White People Like, Nonprofits, Ic, Los Angeles, Crenshaw, U2, Stop Kony Creator Arrested, Oprah, Frontier Market, Forbes, Brangelina, Jason Russell, Bruno the Film, USC Film School, Charity, Bruno, Osama Bin Laden, Meet the Press, Obama, Joseph Kony, Bush, Icc, Compton, Warlords, Kony 2012, Stop Kony, Atrocity Tourists, South Sudan, Uganda, Sacha Baron Cohen, Child Soldiers, Oj, George Clooney, Hollywood, Bin Laden, Global Markets, Meth, Iraq War, Cotton Subsidies, Sudan, Invisible Children, Capital, Rwanda, World News

Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.

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A Dream Deferred

Esther Munthali | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Girl Up Campaign, Women's Rights, Rural Women, Child Marriage, Child Protection, Women in Rural Communities, Girl UP, International Women's Day, Women's Education, Malawi, Women's Education Malawi, Impact News

As a living example of the power of education, I am now a role model to the community and work to ensure that young women are able to reach their full potential.

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Peace Corps Bringing Solar Power To Malawi

Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Malawi Solar Project, Malawi, Solar Energy, Malawi Solar Energy, Video, Green Technology, Africa, Solar Energy Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Development, Solar Energy Africa, Renewable Energy Africa, Solar Power, Green-Technology, Green News

From EarthTechling's Susan DeFreitas: In rural Africa, solar power is increasingly beating grid-fired infrastructure in the race to bring electrici...

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Madonna's Charity Set To Break Ground On 10 Schools In Malawi

AP | By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Buildon, Video, Malawi, Charity, Raising Malawi, Carrie Pena, Madonna Malawi, Madonna, Madonna Charity, Kabbalah Centre, Impact News

NEW YORK -- Nearly six years after it was created, Madonna's Raising Malawi charity is set to break ground on the construction of schools in the impov...

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Teen Impact: Finalist #8

Lauren E. Howard | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Teen Impact, Malawi, Youth Activism, Africa Bags, Teens-Making-a-Difference, Bslide-Universalpictures, High School News

With the help of Africa Bags, seven Malawian villages have transformed into independently flourishing communities. Africa Bags doesn't just raise money and send it over; we teach the villagers a trade they can utilize by themselves to support their families.

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Girl Up: How Teens In U.S. Are Empowering Young Women In Developing Nations

Tabby Biddle | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Girls, Ethiopia, Unicef, Girl UP, United Nations, Education, Queen Rania, Child Marriage, Malawi, Liberia, The Girl Effect, Teen Impact, Impact News

Annie Gersh (third from left) with some of her fellow Girl Up Teen Advisors at the "Unite for Girls Tour" in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Annie ...

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Michigan Woman Donates Thousands Of Hand-Made Dresses To Girls In Africa

trenton.patch.com | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Malawi, Taylor, Rachel O?Neill, Downriver, Little Dresses for Africa, Africa, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Metro South Church, Greatest Person of the Day, Trenton Church of Christ, Michigan, Safari, Impact News

Rachel O'Neill had no idea that taking a vacation to Africa to celebrate her 50th birthday would eventually land her on NBC's Nightly News with Brian ...

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AIDS: From Judgement To Hope

Katherine Marshall | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: HIV and AIDS, Southeast Asia, Uganda, Isobel-Coleman, Hany El Banna, Malawi, South Asia, Gideon Byamugisha, Community of Sant'Egidio, Beatrice Chipeta, HIV/AIDS, World AIDS Day, Religion News

Religious people, communities and institutions were often the first to recognize the pain and suffering the disease caused, for individuals, families, and societies. Saintly nuns and volunteers of many sorts cared for the sick and dying...

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Not in our name: African human rights activists reject UK aid conditionality

Mark Canavera | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Uganda Gay Rights, Foreign Aid, LGBT Issues, Zanzibar Gay Rights, United Kingdom, Homosexual Rights, World News, Zanzibar, LGBT Politics, UK Government, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, African Activists, Africa, Tanzania, LGBT Equality, Malawi, Social Change, Social Action, Ghana, Gay Activism, Social Activism, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Africa Lgbt, Human Rights, Aid Conditionality, Malawi Gay Rights, Africa Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Uganda, Tanzania Gay Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Ghana Gays, World News

An oft-told African proverb (whose precise culture of origin often changes with the teller) asserts that "When elephants fight, the grass suffers." Pu...

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General Mills Shows that Exporting Knowledge Can Make a Difference

Tamar Abrams | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Zambia, Africa, Dsm, Malawi, Volunteers, Nonprofits, Value Chain, General Mills, Partners in Food Solutions, Malnutrition, Thanksgiving, Kofi Annan, Cargill, Hunger, Farmers, Hillary Clinton, Tanzania, Kenya, Minneapolis, Impact News

General Mills knows a thing or two about Zambia. It is one of four African countries where General Mills has been actively working to reduce malnutrition and insecurity.

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Sudanese President Visits Malawi Despite Warrant For International War Crimes

AP | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Sudanese President War Crimes, Omar Al Bashir, Malawi, Bashir Warrant War Crimes, Bashir War Crimes, Sudan President War Crimes, Sudan, Omar Al Bashir Malawi, Malawi Sudan, World News

BLANTYRE, Malawi -- The southern African nation of Malawi is welcoming Sudan's president despite his war crimes indictment. Omar al-Bashir's arrival ...

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Season Opener for Reproductive Health

Carol Peasley | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Michael Gerson, Family Planning, Dr. Fred Sai, Ghana, Malawi, U.S. Congress, Cedpa, Reproductive Health, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Kwashiorkor, Women News

Let us all hope that the first falling leaves and signs of optimism emerging from FedEx Field don't encourage our lawmakers to once again make international family planning a political football.

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My Favorite Libraries: "Your Informal School, College and University"

Meg Campbell | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Seattle, Malawi, Libraries, San Antonio, San Juan Capistrano, Boston Public Library, Favorite Libraries, Top Libraries Libraries USA, Seattle Library, Malawi Library, Best Libraries, San Antonio Library, Books News

In an increasingly isolated human world, libraries are gathering places which confirm the shared social endeavor of learning together.

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I Live Here -- Introducing the Boys of Kachere Juvenile Prison

Erica Solomon | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Education, Mia Kirshner, I Live Here, School, Juvenile Prison, Malawi, Education News

I walk through and am immediately hit by the sun and a wave of boys glancing at me curiously. There are about 90 of them in ripped clothing, barefoot, with wide eyes and bright smiles.

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