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WK In Malawi, Kasungu. In Kasungu. Yeah, Mala.

The irony of all ironies, though, is that, in the Banda administration, Zambian President Sata s Malawian lawyer, Ralph Kasambara, is now Malawi s Justice Minister.

Yesterday 15 fuel tankers left and will have reached Malawi this morning.

Zambian President Sata meets Malawian President Mutharika in South Africa.

Malawi has a low life expectancy and high infant mortality.

After they hugged, President Sata asked Mutharika, kumunzi kuli bwanji? How is the village? and the Malawian leader responded kuli bwino. Nanga mubwela liti?

As the summit was being held in Malawi, however, where Sata s deportation was still pending in the courts, the new Zambian president declined to attend the summit, telling a Malawian special envoy

The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area.

A few months earlier, however, Joyce Banda (then the vice president of Malawi, and now the president) had been to Zambia to attend the neighboring country s independence celebrations on a trip that did not go down well with the Bingu administration.

Our authors for this series are based in Malawi, Egypt, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Brazil, and many more countries.

Malawi's climate is hot in the low lying areas in the south of the country and temperate in the northern highlands.

Demographics Malawi has a population of over 15 million, with a growth rate of 2.75 , according to 2009 estimates.

The main countries that Malawi imports from are South Africa, India, Zambia, Tanzania, the US and China.

Eight years down the road, it is still difficult to do away with the golden silence over AIDS in Malawi.

Malawi has been seen as a haven for refugees from other African countries, including Mozambique and Rwanda, since 1985.

Malawi qualified for a full compact in 2007, while Mauritania became threshold eligible.

A study in Malawi explains that dislike for condoms was a factor in undergoing circumcision.

Regarding the donation of fuel, Zambia s Energy Minister Christopher Yaluma, who had travelled to Malawi, said in April

Years of diplomatic incidents between Malawi and Zambia culminated recently in Zambia s donation of five million liters of fuel to Malawi.

In Malawi, Global Voices author and journalist Victor Kaonga shares a memory from the first interview he ever conducted with an openly HIV positive woman

I had traveled from Malawi's capital Lilongwe for over 350 km to meet this lady in a rural area in Zomba.

The next time Sata would meet the Malawian leader was in South Africa at the centenary celebrations of the ruling African National Congress.

When she arrived in Malawi, she was threatened with arrest allegedly because her trip had not been officially authorized by the Malawian government.

Malawi maintained close relations with South Africa throughout the Apartheid era, which strained Malawi's relationships with other African countries.

What attracted me to her was the fact she did not hide she was HIV positive and to declare so in 1999 in Malawi was almost a taboo.

These influxes of refugees have placed a strain on the Malawian economy but have also drawn significant inflows of aid from other countries.

Geography Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique to the south, southwest and southeast.

Its dances are a strong part of Malawi's culture, and the National Dance Troupe (formerly the Kwacha Cultural Troupe) was formed in November 1987 by the government.

Air Malawi frequently had financial difficulties, and the Malawian government attempted to privatise the airline on two occasions without success.

In 2008, Malawi began testing cars that ran solely on ethanol, and initial results are promising, and the country is continuing to increase its use of ethanol.

Malawi is composed of three regions (the Northern, Central and Southern regions), which are divided into 28 districts, and further into approximately 250 traditional authorities and 110 administrative wards.

Because of the shortage of electricity to power refrigeration facilities in Malawi, President Mutharika s body was transferred to South Africa, where he was buried on April 23.

By 1500 AD, the tribes had established the Kingdom of Maravi that reached from north of what is now Nkhotakota to the Zambezi River and from Lake Malawi to the Luangwa River in what is now Zambia.

Malawi has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world, although economic growth was estimated at 9.7 in 2008 and strong growth is predicted by the International Monetary Fund for 2009.

In 2007, Michael Sata then the Zambian opposition leader travelled to Malawi for a private visit, but was deported on arrival at Chileka Airport and driven 400 kilometers back to Zambia.

So far they have shot a pilot with a US cable car driver in San Francisco and a Brazilian musician city permit inspector, as well as a shoot in Malawi and another in Japan.

Significant numbers of students from Malawi travel to the US for schooling, and the US has active branches of the Peace Corps, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for International Development in Malawi.

As the world's population reaches 7 billion at the end of October, one sign that Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, is growing rapidly are the numbers of people that flock to the city's markets.

World Bank country director for Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe, Kundhavi Kadiresan criticized the decision and claimed that poor Zambian farmers were being exploited as some traders were buying maize from them in anticipation of re selling it at a higher price to the state run Food Reserve Agency.

The surface of Lake Malawi is located at above sea level, with a maximum depth of , which means the lake bottom is over below sea level at some points.

Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 (Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe), with Rwanda and Burundi joining the FTA in 2004, the Comoros and Libya in 2006, and Seychelles in 2009.

On December 12, 2007, the MCC Board selected Malawi for a compact and Mauritania for a threshold agreement, as well as allowing Albania, Paraguay, and Zambia to submit a first ever second stage threshold agreement.

In 2012, Malawi was ranked 7th of all countries in sub Saharan Africa in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, an index that measures several variables to provide a comprehensive view of the governance of African countries.