LOS ANGELES: Madonna is hoping her new Malawi girls school will put an end to the "brain drain happening in Africa" - by educating pupils so they can help rebuild the nation. The pop superstar, who ...

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The growing political and economic crisis in Malawi, highlighted by the government’s use of force against peaceful demonstrators last week, could also imperil the groundbreaking expansion of Malawi’s ...

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The Obama administration designated Malawi as a GHI Plus country in June 2010, one of the first eight countries selected to implement the Global Health Initiative’s (GHI) more comprehensive approach ...

A school kitchen being built in Malawi is to be named in honour of a nine-year-old blogger who has raised £85,000 for charity. Martha Payne started the NeverSeconds blog six weeks ago, posting daily ...

The High Court in Malawi's business city of Blantyre ruled yesterday in favour of university lecturers arguing that they cannot be forced back into lecture rooms “infested with spies”. This is ...

I've spent nine incredible months in Malawi and as I sit down to write this final blog, I begin to reminisce about my first moments in Blantyre last year; the heat, the spiders, the geckos! Reading ...