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		<title>Female Judge now leading Malawi&#8217;s Judiciary</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31735</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Anastarzia Msosa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi’s revered female Supreme Court of Appeals Judge Anastarzia Msosa, has been entrusted to manage the Judiciary in Malawi following the retirement of Justice Lovemore Munlo, SC. Newstime Africa understands that under Section 113 (1) of the Malawi Constitution Justice Msosa has the powers to act as the country’s Chief Justice and so that is what...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi in integrated boarder systems initiative to check on fake entrants</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31708</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knowledge Chiwambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrated boarder systems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi has embarked on an integrated boarder control systems project, an inter-connection structure that will enable the country’s immigration department headquarters access activities happening everywhere the system is installed, the department has confirmed. The new system meets the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standard which avails a traveler information and authenticity of passports of all...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi road to 2014 Elections: Court case is not a winning strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31683</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Ntilosanje</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2014 Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another stupid item in the People&#8217;s Party closet of reasoning is this notion namely that Peter Mutharika is not a good candidate of the DPP because he has pending court cases. Damn! Tell that to Raila Odinga and he will quickly invite the PP to his school of learning that using a pending court case...]]></description>
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		<title>Joyce Banda loses round one</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31679</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Ntilosanje</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The People&#8217;s Party is a bereaved grouping. From President Joyce Banda to economic asylum seekers that she and her party uses as front-line strategists online, they, today, have tear-drenched hearts. They are very angry. The outcome of the DPP convention has annoyed them. Their preferred and choicest candidate was floored almost battered toothless. That will...]]></description>
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		<title>Concern over Malawi’s decision on arbitration</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31675</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Ntilosanje</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[:Lake Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arbitration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern African Development Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tanzania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Malawi indicated that it wished to give up mediation of its dispute with Tanzania over Lake Malawi by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) in favour of the International Court of Justice arbitration. Malawian President Joyce Banda said the mediation efforts — led by Joaquim Chissano, Sadc’s chairman of the Forum of Former...]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe awaits Malawi President Joyce Banda to open Premier Trade Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31627</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premier Trade Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi President Joyce Banda is scheduled to officially open the Zimbabwe 2013 International Trade Fair which runs from April 23 to 27 in Bulawayo, courtesy of an invitation of the country’s President Robert Mugabe. This will be President Banda’s maiden state visit to the home of Mugabe a very close ally to the departed Professor...]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed reactions over Carlsberg Malawi’s decision to opt for twin sponsorship</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31625</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlsberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sponsorship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The decision by Malawi’s giant brewer, Carlsberg Malawi Limited to once again bankroll both Big Bullets Football Club and Mighty Wanderers Football Club when in the first place it was made public that it will just be one team that will enjoy ultimate sponsorship from this season for two years running has attracted a lot...]]></description>
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		<title>Newstime Africa joins Malawi Media in mourning</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31553</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Lisuntha Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newstime Africa (NTA) has joined Malawi&#8217;s Nation Publication Limited (NPL) and the media fraternity in general in mourning the sudden death of one of Malawi&#8217;s industrious and highly respected media executives, who died at a private hospital in Blantyre. The announcement of the sudden death of Elizabeth Lisuntha Banda Friday April 12 2013 afternoon has...]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Gang of Three’, ‘Midnight Six’ and ‘Daniel Phiri’: Unpacking Malawi’s alleged coup plot</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31512</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Ntilosanje</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alleged Coup Plot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Bingu Wa Mutharika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Commission of Inquiry’s report into the death of Malawi’s former President Mutharika makes for compelling reading. The Commission of Inquiry’s105-page report into the death, in April 2012, of President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and political manoeuvrings in the immediate aftermath makes for compelling reading. Fully two and a half pages are devoted to considering whether...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi President Joyce Banda commissions new Military Barracks</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31493</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31493#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Military Barracks commissioned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Dr. Joyce Banda has commissioned a new Military Barracks in the Northern Malawi bringing the number of Battalions to 11, but the fourth along the coastlines of Lake Malawi. The Malawi leader, who by virtue of being the State President is also the Commander-In-Chief of the Defence Forces of Malawi, commissioned the 11th Battalion in...]]></description>
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		<title>Five family members perish on Shire River after Hippo attack in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31438</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hippo attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Malawi, five family members have died after the boat they were sailing in was crushed by an irate hippopotamus in Shire River, in the country’s Eastern Region. The police have confirmed that a 34 year old father, his wife aged 30 and three children lost their lives over the weekend after drowning in the...]]></description>
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		<title>Floods in Malawi force villagers to seek shelter on main road</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31399</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Severe floods have left hundreds of families in 16 villages homeless and one woman admitted to hospital after a heavy down pour in Karonga in the northern Malawi Wednesday March 27 2013, officials have confirmed. According to an official from the Office of the District Commissioner in Karonga, Emmanuel Bulukutu Chirwa, over 500 families, including...]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: Malawi Electoral Commision &#8211; Postponement of implementation of Biometric Voter Registration System</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31346</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release  - The Malawi Electoral Commission wishes to inform the general public that following the advice made available to it by various experts and stakeholders on the implementation of the Biometric Voter Registration System, it has shelved the plans of implementing the solution for the purposes of the 2014 Tripartite Elections. The Commission has...]]></description>
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		<title>Former Mutharika legal advisor defiant, says not afraid of treason</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31160</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Tenthani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allan Ntata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Bingu Wa Mutharika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blantyre, Malawi, March 14 (Raphael Tenthani &#8211; Newstime Africa)  - Former presidential legal advisor Allan Ntata has expressed surprise at his inclusion among the dozen people charged with treason over an alleged coup plot in the aftermath of the death of former Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika. The 12, who include Bingu&#8217;s own brother Professor...]]></description>
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		<title>In Malawi &#8211; Another economic planning minister throws in the towel</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31156</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atupele Muluzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodall Gondwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Pacharo Jooma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Malawi few months after the first Joyce Banda anointed Economic Planning and Development Minister Atupele Muluzi resigned, his replacement, Goodall Gondwe, has taken a similar route, throwing in the towel when the country needed him most. And Newstime Africa understands that President Dr. Joyce Banda has since promoted Deputy Finance Minister Ralph Pacharo Jooma...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi: Courts sets Thursday for Mutharika death arrests as violence spreads to the capital</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31088</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31088#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Tenthani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mutharika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blantyre, Malawi, March 12 (Raphael Tenthani) &#8211; The eleven former senior Malawi government officials, arrested on Monday following the publication of a report into the death last April of President Bingu wa Mutharika, have been charged with various offences including conspiracy to break the law, sedition and perjury. According to Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu, the...]]></description>
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		<title>Harper Government partners with Western University to increase food security in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31069</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31069#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, Canada, March 12, 2013 &#8211; African Press Organization (APO) – Smallholder farmers in Africa will learn sustainable farming practices and improve the health and nutrition of their families thanks to a partnership between the Government of Canada and Western University. Today, Member of Parliament Susan Truppe, on behalf of the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of...]]></description>
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		<title>Ten former senior Malawian government officials including ministers arrested for allegedly plotting a coup</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31051</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/31051#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Tenthani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coup plot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mutharika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blantyre, Malawi, March 11 (Raphael Tenthani &#8211; Newstime Africa) &#8211;  At least ten former senior Malawian government officials, including ministers, were arrested on Monday for allegedly plotting a coup to prevent then Vice President Joyce Banda from assuming power following the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika in April last year. The arrests of...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi&#8217;s Mutharika died on the way to hospital &#8211; report</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30951</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Tenthani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bingu Wa Mutharika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blantyre, Malawi, March 6 (Raphael Tenthani &#8211; Newstime Africa) &#8211; Former Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika collapsed in his office at the New State House (now renamed Kamuzu Palace) and died minutes later before reaching Kamuzu Central Hospital, a report into his sudden death has revealed. &#8220;Prof. Bingu wa Mutharika collapsed at around 11.10am on...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi’s drug policy advocacy group disapproves government’s dilly dally and courts health minister</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30936</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hon Catherine Gotani Hara MP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malawi Alcohol Policy Alliance (MAPA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Alcohol Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned with the snail pace that the government is moving along on the issue of  National Alcohol Policy, and propelled by its quest to save Malawi from health risks stemming from alcohol and related substances, an alliance of civil society organisations has taken another step in courting the country’s health minister, Newstime Africa can reveal....]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi President threatens to close down Joyce Banda Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30916</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30916#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Banda Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Angered by the un-sanctioned and strange protests by a cross section of pupils who in the commercial city of Blantyre also targeted the Joyce Banda Foundation (JBF), Malawi president Dr. Joyce Banda has threatened that she will let the institution to close down. The president’s sentiments come in the wake of the bold and un imaginable...]]></description>
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		<title>Government bows down to striking civil servants in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30880</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government bows down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strikes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After running battles, accusations and counter-accusations in Malawi, the striking civil servants and the government have reached a deadlock, and the Malawi’s Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) has since called off the strike that paralyzed government operations and for the first time in the annals of Malawi school children showed government that they too are...]]></description>
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		<title>Civil servants strike takes new twist in Malawi as students invade president’s school</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30851</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drama erupted Wednesday February 20 2013 at the Joyce Banda Foundation (JBF), an international private school, in Blantyre City South, whose patron is Malawi’s head of state, as pupils from nearby public schools stalled business at the school to level the field with what is happening at the public schools. There has been no learning...]]></description>
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		<title>One-stop centre opens in Malawi to fast track assistance to gender based violence victims</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30843</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30843#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender-based violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Victims of gender based violence in the essential service provision challenged Malawi can at least smile as the country focuses on having as many as One Stop Centres (OSC) as possible so that gender based victims are helped out without much a hassle, as the case has been,  Newtime Africa understands. Beside an alarming rate...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi’s Joyce Banda government has not failed, says Mutharika</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30835</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mutharika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting President Peter Arthur Mutharika has suggested that it is too early to judge that the Joyce Banda led government has completely failed. “It is too early… it is just nine months since they are in government and to conclude that they have failed at this point in time is...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi female police officers fine-tuned for peace keeping missions</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30808</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Female police officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace keeping missions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort of shaping Malawi female police officers for possible UN peace keeping undertakings, the Malawi and Norwegian governments have joined hands in drilling Malawi women police officers. The main components during the two week training are driving and English proficiency which  Norwegian Police Force Chief Superintendent say are very crucial since besides combat,...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi electoral commission engages special reporters in the run up to tripartite elections</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30764</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30764#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent reporters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tripartite elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the run up to the 2014 tripartite elections, Malawi’s electoral body has engaged an extra gear by seeking to contract the services of capable communicators to cover the electoral processes so that the general public is able to make informed choices. The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) quest is to make the elections, though the...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi court free online journalist Mponda</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30755</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30755#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knowledge Chiwambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalist freed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Mponda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An online journalist arrested last year in Malawi for allegedly publishing false news likely to cause fear and alarm among people has been acquitted by the courts, Newstime Africa can report. A Principal Magistrate Court in Lilongwe freed the Malawi Voice online journalist, Justice Mponda Friday February 8 2013 due to lack of evidence. Out of the...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi president warns corrupt officials and the media</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30718</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corrupt officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi president Dr. Joyce Banda has strongly warned that the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) will have no mercy on any corrupt person, including high ranking officials in both the public and private sector, because her government wants a corrupt free Malawi. Speaking during this year’s Anti-Corruption Day commemoration, whose theme was “Media; a partner in...]]></description>
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		<title>Korean University honour Malawi President: Now Dr. Joyce Banda</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30690</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30690#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Joyce Banda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Korean University, Jeonju has conferred a Doctorate Degree of Economics, Honoris Causa to Malawi’s President Joyce Banda in recognition of her efforts to improve Malawi’s ailing economy and her impeccable service to humanity, qualifying her to be called Dr. Joyce Banda from Friday February 1 2013. The Malawi President went to South Korea after attending an...]]></description>
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		<title>Blantyre City Council toss net wide in budget formulation in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30666</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30666#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knowledge Chiwambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blantyre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort of fulfilling its motto of ‘Taking the city back to the people’ the Blantyre City Council (BCC), an oldest urban centre in Malawi and Southern Africa, is coaxing the people it serves to participate in its preparations for the forthcoming budget. The council is in the process of formulating its 2013/2014 budget financial...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi Electoral Commission rebuffs political parties on funding</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30615</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30615#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political parties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has snubbed the country’s political parties for possible funding during the forthcoming first tripartite elections, Newstime Africa has learnt. Malawi is scheduled to hold a tripartite election in May 2014 and MEC is on a nationwide ward demarcation consultative tour during which at a meeting for Blantyre Rural the electoral body...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi President Banda does not consult husband on government affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30293</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30293#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matters of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi president Mrs. Joyce Banda has revealed that she does not consult her husband, Justice Richard Banda on government affairs, saying the government has enough structures to handle its issues. Mrs. Joyce Mtila Banda, the first female president in the Southern African country of Malawi allayed fears that having a husband who has a vast...]]></description>
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		<title>UK invites Malawi president for Dr. Livingstone celebrations</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30582</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30582#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. David Livingstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom (UK) has invited Malawi president Mrs Joyce Banda for celebrations commemorating 200 years of the life of Dr. David Livingstone and his contributions to the world, Newstime Africa understands. Ironically, in Malawi, the life of Dr. Livingstone, a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa...]]></description>
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		<title>Interconnection deal for Malawi and Mozambique tabled again</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30569</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30569#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mozambique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malawi and Mozambique have gone back on the drawing table to revise an electricity inter connector deal the two countries agreed upon in 2009. The two countries entered into a power interconnection deal some three years ago but the agreement has been awash with alterations at various levels, the recent being what the principle secretary...]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese nationals fined and lose forex in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30566</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30566#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knowledge Chiwambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese national fined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Court in Malawi has forfeited US $31,096 and MK133, 100 that two Chinese nationals were trying to externalize, and ordered them to pay MK 350,000, in addition to surrendering the money. Newstime Africa learnt that the two Chinese engineers were scheduled to board an Ethiopian Airways flight to Addis Ababa en route to China...]]></description>
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		<title>No polling centers in Malawi Army camps and Airports</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30554</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling centers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has quashed suggestions by certain quarters that the Commission open centres at some Army camps to ease mobility of soldiers, their families and the civilians who stay near the military bases. The proposal was put forward in Lilongwe during the on-going ward demarcation public hearings, which is offering platform to...]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion instills fear in girls hostel in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30524</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30524#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 Year-old girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Hostel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fear engulfed a girls secondary school in Malawi’s old capital city Zomba Sunday night when it was uncovered that one of their colleagues had hid a dead baby in a plastic bag in one of the dormitories, police has confirmed of the incident. The girls could not imagine that their friend, a 16-year old, (name...]]></description>
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		<title>Government, Escom apologise over historical blackout in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30419</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30419#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESCOM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government of Malawi and the country&#8217;s Electricity Supply Corporation have apologised for a national wide blackout that occurred in the country on January 15 2013,and have since appointed investigation teams to establish the real cause of the historic one hour blackout, it has been announced. Both government and the Escom have indicated that investigations...]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi president&#8217;s aide too busy to appear before court</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30417</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Chipanga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joyce Banda&#8217;s presidential aid on special duties Reverend Malawi Mtonga who is one of people the prosecution set to testify against Journalist Justice Mponda, this week failed to avail himself at the Lilongwe Magistrates Court because he was busy with state function, Newstime Africa has learnt. Malawi’s National police prosecutor, Mr. Happy Mkandawire told the...]]></description>
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