The name Malawi comes from the word Maravi of which this region used to part of. The people in the Maravi empire were iron workers. While using the kilns for their iron uses they noticed the kilns were lighting up the sky, then came up with the meaning of Maravi “Flames.” Malawi...
(July 2013 est.). Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi's largest city; the second largest is Blantyre and the third is Mzuzu. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed "The Warm Heart of ...
Malawi has some of the most fertile land in the region. Almost 70 percent of agricultural produce comes from smalholder farmers. However, land distribution is unequal with more than 40 percent of smallholder households cultivating very small plots. The country's export trade is dominated by ...
Region (Map name): Africa Population: 10,548,250 Language(s): English, Chichewa Literacy rate: 58.0% Area: 118,480 sq km GDP: 1,697 (US$ millions) Number of Television Stations: 1 Number of Satellite Subscribers: 100 Number of Radio Stations: 16 Number of Radio Receivers:...
When it comes to nonconsensual pornography, the prevailing and predominant legal discourse in both Malawi and Uganda is concerned with regulating sexuality and controlling women's bodies. The openly accessible female body, representing both the crime and the criminal, is constructed in legal language ...
I had had about enough of the endless monotony of scrub brush alongside the potholed tarmac. I have driven that particular route one too many times and it does not get more interesting. But at last we arrived at the lush lakeside retreat. Due to renovations under much of the older part...
in Mangochi (which has the highest percentage of Muslims in the country). However, Mangochi is predominantly a Yao ethnic region, therefore Muslim and Yao traditions mutually influence local practice of the ritual. Regardless of ethnic or religious background, sexual and social conduct remain core...
“The reported case in Malawi comes as a big disappointment, but sadly not as a surprise,” said Kim Thompson, president of Kid Risk, a nonprofit organization that does disease modeling for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. “It’s definitely showing us that the quality of immuniz...
Malawi is a country in southeastern Africa in which 7.1% of the population lives with HIV and 94% of PLHIV know their status [4]. Machinga and Balaka are two relatively densely populated districts in the southern region of Malawi [33] with HIV prevalence rates similar to the national ...
Despite being one of the first protected areas under the co-management concept in Malawi, cases of poaching are still rampant at Vwaza. Vwaza is located in northern region of Malawi, south-west of the Nyika Plateau and Nyika National Park (NNP). It covers an area of 986 km2 and it is...