Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:20 AM EDT
Malawi media mogul Gospel Kazako has had masked thugs torch two of his radio station's vehicles. The president has accused the station of fanning anti-government demonstrations that turned violent.
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Mon Feb 7, 2011 2:42 PM EST
A planned deal to give Malawi $350 million in U.S. aid will not be signed this week because more talks are needed amid international concerns new laws curb individual freedoms, officials said Monday.
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
More than 100 members of a Christian religious sect have barricaded themselves in an abandoned building in southern Malawi over their refusal to give their children the measles vaccine, a regional health official said Wednesday.
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Thu May 27, 2010 12:19 PM EDT
The supply of fish in the world's eighth-largest lake has plunged by more than 90 percent over two decades, according to researchers who say more fish farms must be built to reduce fishing pressure on Lake Malawi.
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Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:37 AM EDT
Malawi's president has married a former Cabinet minister.
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Mon Apr 5, 2010 5:02 AM EDT
Madonna laid the first brick of her new girls' academy near Malawi's capital Tuesday, in which she encouraged Malawian girls to "dare to dream," according to the inscription on the brick.
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Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:03 PM EST
Malawi's government said Monday that it is unmoved by international criticism of the trial of a gay couple charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency, felonies for which they could be imprisoned for up to 14 years.
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Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:19 PM EDT
Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two children, an official for the star's charity said.
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:16 AM EDT
Government fertilizer has made the difference between hunger and plenty for Rodrick Jesitala, a farmer and father of three in southern Malawi.
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:55 AM EDT
Foreign tobacco buyers who are paying less than agreed-upon prices for the country's main cash crop are the "enemy of the people" and will be expelled, said the president of this African nation, whose government this week deported three of them.
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Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:10 PM EDT
Children picking tobacco in the fields of Malawi for consumers far beyond the African country's borders are being poisoned as they absorb up to two cigarette packs' worth of nicotine each day, a children's rights organization said Monday,
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:26 PM EDT
Madonna's new daughter has flown out of her native Malawi on a private jet headed for London, an airport employee and a person familiar with Madonna's adoption proceedings in this southern African country said Saturday.
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Mon May 18, 2009 7:17 AM EDT
President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi was sworn in to a second five-year term Friday after a landslide election victory, and he immediately reached out to his vanquished opponents.
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Mon May 4, 2009 11:22 AM EDT
Malawi's highest court heard arguments Monday on Madonna's bid to adopt a 3-year-old girl from the southern African country, as a dispute erupted over whether a man trying to stop the proceedings is the girl's father.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:22 AM EDT
Madonna's appeal of a court ruling denying her request to adopt a 3-year-old girl from Malawi will be heard next month, a court official said Monday.
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Fri Apr 3, 2009 8:56 PM EDT
Madonna left Malawi on her private jet Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child from the poor African nation, air traffic control officials said.
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Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
Madonna lost a bid Friday to adopt a second child from Malawi, rejected by a judge who said she would not bend the country's strict residency rules even for a wealthy celebrity.
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:55 AM EDT
Madonna is planning to adopt a second child from Malawi, officials said Thursday, but questions have already been raised over whether the newly divorced pop star will face obstacles because of her single mom status.
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:02 PM EST
Malawi's former leader appeared in court to face corruption and abuse of office charges Thursday, weeks before an election in which he hopes to regain the presidency.
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Sun May 25, 2008 3:52 PM EDT
Malawi's former president, Bakili Muluzi, was detained at the capital's airport Sunday and later placed under house arrest amid a government investigation into an alleged coup plot.
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Wed May 14, 2008 8:26 PM EDT
Madonna won't know until next week whether a Malawian boy she found in an orphanage in 2006 will become a permanent member of her family, her lawyer said.
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Tue May 6, 2008 8:03 PM EDT
Some 100 miles from Malawi's capital, the dusty village of Lipunga has no movie theaters or video players, let alone electricity. But villager Yohane Banda has at least heard that Madonna's new documentary is meant to draw attention to this southern African country's poverty.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:53 PM EST
Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Africa Thursday, killing at least three people in Malawi and forcing Zambia to declare a national disaster.
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Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:01 AM EST
A High Court judge postponed Monday his ruling on a challenge to Madonna's plans to adopt a Malawian baby.
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Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:06 PM EDT
Oprah Winfrey was scheduled to tape an interview with Madonna on Tuesday about the pop singer's planned adoption of a 13-month-old boy from the African country of Malawi.
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