Malawi Mining

Latest News for: Malawi mining

Child labour rampant in tobacco industry

The Guardian 25 Jun 2018

“I wanted to be a nurse,” said one 14-year-old girl in Malawi, who spends her days weeding under a hot sun with a heavy hoe ... Experts say the very low prices paid to farmers in countries like Malawi make child labour inevitable ... Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania ... (in Malawi known as Limbe Leaf) or Japan Tobacco International (JTI)....

Edit

Tobacco: activist investors pressure £20bn companies over child labour

The Guardian 25 Jun 2018

Despite tobacco giants’ policies against child labour, the practice remains widespread, experts say. Supported by ... He has been working on the subject for 20 years and has done research in Malawi, Bolivia, Argentina, Tanzania, India and Kenya ... Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania ... JTI said a contracted farmer in Malawi would earn three times more harvesting one hectare of tobacco compared with one hectare of groundnuts ... ....

Edit

Malawi:Government to Scale Up HIV Self-Testing

All Africa 24 Jun 2018

[Malawi News Agency] Lilongwe -In its efforts of taking HIV and Aids testing as part of the fight against the scourge, the Malawi Government through the Ministry of Health intends to roll out self-testing facility for HIV in order to enable many people know their status and seek relevant medical attention ... ....

Edit

Malawi launches four-year action plan to protect persons with albinism

Xinhua 24 Jun 2018

KARONGA, Malawi, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The Malawi government has launched a four-year National Action Plan on Persons With Albinism aimed at ending atrocities against persons with albinism, and improving their social welfare ... Cholera resurfaces in Malawi ... Malawi aims to become investment haven of Africa ... Malawi parliament says concerned about continued albino attacks ... 42.5 mln USD for Malawi's 2019 elections from National Budget....

Edit

Malawi:Hyena Injures Four People in Salima

All Africa 24 Jun 2018

[Malawi News Agency] Salima -A marauding hyena on Friday morning viciously attacked an elderly couple and two other people before it was killed by a brave member of the community in Salima ... ....

Edit

Malawi:Disabled School Children Struggle to Access Drinking Water and Toilets

All Africa 24 Jun 2018

[The Conversation Africa] The image of a primary school child leaving their wheelchair outside a pit latrine and crawling across an unclean floor to perform basic bodily functions is stark ... ....

Edit

Botswana wins netball, volleyball golds in regional university games

Xinhua 24 Jun 2018

The week-long games attracted eight Southern African university teams competing in 10 sports in Gaborone, capital of Botswana ... Other teams that competed at the Games are Zambia and Malawi who came fourth and fifth respectively while Namibia, Kingdom of Eswatini and Lesotho did not record any medals ... ....

Edit

Tea consumption up in Pakistan

Dawn 24 Jun 2018

ISLAMABAD. A massive increase of 35.8 per cent in per capita consumption of tea in Pakistan has been recorded from 2007 to 2016 ... The highest increase was seen in Malawi with 565.2pc, followed by China 128.6pc, Rwanda 110.2pc, Turkey 25.9pc, Indonesia 26.6pc and Libya 39.8pc ... This showed in next 10 years, tea consumption will increase by 77,844 tonnes ... Statistics show that 12,804 tonnes of tea was imported valued at Rs4.057bn in May 2017....

Edit

Women's unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history

Mail Guardian South Africa 24 Jun 2018

It’s been nearly 80 years since British economists James Meade and Richard Stone devised a method of national income accounting that would become the global standard. Today, we call it a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) ... She was hired by Meade and Stone in 1941 to apply their method in a few British colonies. In present-day Malawi and Zambia, Deane realised that it was an error to exclude unpaid household labour from GDP ... time ... ....

Edit

Abused and destitute: Wars fuel rise in global number of widows

Arabnews 23 Jun 2018

Author. Reuters Fri, 2018-06-22 10.19 ID. 1529718707969277300 LONDON. Millions of widows worldwide suffer crushing poverty and persecution, their numbers swelled by a proliferation of conflicts from Syria to Myanmar ... - Property seizures and evictions by the late husband’s family are widespread in many places including Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe ... Main category....

Edit

Expression 2018 set to unveil today to mark Olympic Day

The Times of India 23 Jun 2018

KOLKATA. After a grand success of 'Expression 2017', St. Lawrence High School (SLHS), Kolkata, India, in association with their alumni St ... Theme this year is 'Olympic Games and Youth' as the world will be coming together for 3rd Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October this year ... Lawrence High School ... We have already received entries from Australia, Afghanistan, Spain, Malawi, Zimbabwe and India ... ....

Edit

Malawi:Authorities Pounce On Army, Police Over Water Bills

All Africa 22 Jun 2018

[Nyasa Times] The Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) has pounced on Malawi Defence Force (MDF), Malawi Prison and Malawi Police Service (MPS) among other institutions for failing to pay water bills amounting to over K3.7 billion ... ....

Edit

Malawi:Castel Malawi Confess Producing Poor Taste Carlsberg Green Beer

All Africa 22 Jun 2018

[Nyasa Times] After a long and loud cry of the poor taste of Carlsberg Green beer by the imbibers, Castel Malawi has finally heard the cries and has come out to acknowledge the substandard production of the brand ... ....

Edit