35 Burst results for "Malawi"
AP News Radio
Cyclone Freddy wanes after battering Malawi, Mozambique
"Cyclo Freddy is finally set to move away from land after killing hundreds and displacing thousands, as it barreled through Mozambique and Malawi since late last week, The Rain continued to fall in the storm ravaged region of plants higher in Malawi over 200 people have died in the country since hurricane Freddie made landfall days earlier, local government minister Richard shin Wendell Banda said floodwaters were slowing down the rescue efforts. Our efforts to reach out. In California, Mozambique, many who had to abandon their homes like Linus Jackson, took shelter in schools. She said, we are still wearing the same clothes since we arrived here when it comes to food. It's not enough. We
Bloomberg Radio New York
"malawi" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Really need this just for a basic necessities. Yeah, so it's sort of a classic case of haves and have nots here. So you have places like the U.S., where we are largely doing okay because we, you know, we have supply, and we already are like a pretty wealthy country, right? And then you've got places like Africa where they just can't get the product. I mean, even though sanctions don't directly impact Russian fertilizer, they've been very clear about that, right? The sanctions don't extend def fertilizers. So Russia is free to export. Yes, Russia's Frida export fertilizer in the same way that it should be free to export grains. We count that as a necessity for food. And so they should be free to export this fertilizer, but it has totally gummed up the supply chain. So you've got ships unsure if they want to touch the fertilizer because they're afraid of somehow falling under sanctions and also product is moving in a different way than it used to. And so some of those supply chains make it really, really difficult. Well, one example you write about is Malawi. Yeah. Tell us about their experience right now. Malawi is already one of the poorest places in the world. I mean, they really struggle. And then now on top of that, you have, I mean, it's been months trying to get them the supply of fertilizer that they need that is pushing back the ability to grow crops because you can't just apply fertilizer at any point in the year when they need the fertilizer they need the fertilizer. And that's sort of what Malawi is facing right now. Is that long-term? If we can't get our fertilizer, how do we feed these people? But it's not just there, you also write that countries in other regions of the world are suffering in the same way. Yeah, exactly. It's not just African nations. For example, go to the other side of the earth, and then you've got Peru, which is actually turning to guano, which has been used as a fertilizer in the past. It is bird poop. It has been proven to be a really good source of nutrients for crops. If they can't get the product that they need, guano is a good alternative for them. Well, I mean, there's a lot of birds. So you could see how they could produce a lot of guano that I suppose could be collected, but they don't do it in all one place, so how do they actually collect it? Yeah, so I think that the birds like certain areas. And so you just, I mean, go to where the birds are and you collect the guano and then it's used as a fertilizer. And it's not just bird guano, they can use bat guano two, so there are a lot of different types of
Bloomberg Radio New York
"malawi" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Really, really need this just for a basic necessities. Yeah, so it's sort of a classic case of haves and have nots here. So you have places like the U.S., where we are largely doing okay because we, you know, we have supply and we already are like a pretty wealthy country, right? And then you've got places like Africa where they just can't get the product. I mean, even though sanctions don't directly impact Russian fertilizer, they've been very clear about that, right? The sanctions don't extend to fertilizers. So Russia is free to export. Yes, Russia's free to export fertilizer in the same way that it should be free to export grains. We count that as a necessity for food. And so they should be free to export this fertilizer, but it has totally gummed up the supply chain. So you've got ships unsure if they want to touch the fertilizer because they're afraid of somehow falling under sanctions and also product is moving in a different way than it used to. And so some of those supply chains make it really, really difficult. Well, one example you write about is Malawi. Yeah. Tell us about their experience right now. Malawi is already one of the poorest places in the world. I mean, they really struggle. And then now on top of that, you have, I mean, it's been months trying to get them the supply of fertilizer that they need that is pushing back the ability to grow crops because you can't just apply fertilizer at any point in the year when they need the fertilizer they need the fertilizer. And that's sort of what Malawi is facing right now. Is that long-term? Okay, if we can't get our fertilizer, how do we feed these people? But it's not just there, you also write that countries in other regions of the world are suffering in the same way. Yeah, exactly. It's not just African nations. For example, go to the other side of the earth, and then you've got Peru, which is actually turning to guano, which has been used as a fertilizer in the past. It is bird poop. It has been proven to be a really good source of nutrients for crops. If they can't get the product that they need, guano is a good alternative for them. Well, I mean, there's a lot of birds. So you could see how they could produce a lot of guano that I suppose could be collected, but they don't do it in all one place so how do they actually collect it? Yeah, so I think that the birds like certain areas and so you just, I mean go to where the birds are and you collect the guano and then it's used as a fertilizer. And it's not just bird guano, they can use bat guano two, so there are a lot of different types of guano that
AP News Radio
Britain mourns Queen Elizabeth as Charles becomes king
"A service of remembrance was held at St Paul's Cathedral in London for Queen Elizabeth Bishop Sarah mullally said a life lived in the service of others is a rare jewel It is a jewel that her late majesty the Queen wore as a crown Malawi called the Queen a symbol of unity strength forbearance and resilience She has been at this nation's unerring heartbeat Through times or progress joy and celebration As well as in much darker and more difficult seasons Mullally prayed that the queen's words over the years can be a reminder of the power and strength that can be found in coming together I'm Ed Donahue
Holistic Health Masterclass
"malawi" Discussed on Holistic Health Masterclass
"Personally, myself, life is a lot more satisfactory now since transition into this sort of lifestyle. Before living the day to today city life, like everybody else, there's always I was always a hunger for something else. And I never kind of figured out what it was. Now when transitioning to this lifestyle, the little things you appreciate a lot more, you know, running water, for example. Heat in the winter time, you suddenly start taking more appreciation for those things. And it actually helps you to become complete in yourself. It was solved a lot of mental related issues. When you get that first hot shower in the summer. There's actually very few things that make me quite so happy. And showers, they're healthy and everything, but they're not enjoyable. You know, it reminds me of it reminds me of when I was traveling, I was much younger, and I was traveling through Africa, which is where I'm from, but I was traveling up the coast. And landed up in a place called Malawi, which is one of the poorest countries, if not the poorest country in the world. And landed up camping out on Lake Malawi, which is absolutely beautiful. I mean, it's just you're in another world. And landed up speaking to one of the locals who sat around the fire all night, and a couple of things the voice stuck with me. For them, these were some of the happiest people that I met at the time, which was very interesting to me, and I was like, wow, you guys are so happy, you know? And I said, well, what's the deal? And I was much younger. I didn't know then what I know now. And one of the things that really struck me was they didn't have a lot of choice. So they sort of said, well, we either do this, or we do that..
The Chalene Show
"malawi" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"I have no idea. But I do know that there's more than 70 plus people who have reached out to me with horrific experiences and I don't know what those people have done. I don't know what their family members have done. I certainly know my husband is furious and livid. And I know many of the other victims husbands or spouses or partners are upset. So I don't know what they've done and I'm not in charge of them. And I can't be responsible for them. So I'm personally having done anything to intentionally harass him. And then my attorney just like explained the law basically to this mediator and I assume she knows what the laws. Anyways. And so she's like, okay, thank you. Now let me go back. And so she click, click, click, click, click, click, click. You know, her high heels walking down the hallway and around the corner and then she explained my side to doctor Malawi, oh, before that, my attorneys. And I can't go into too much detail 'cause I think this is supposed to be confidential. I know that what we worked or what we talked about as terms of mediation, meaning, so he's filed a civil harassment restraining order against me. And the judge has to rule on that. We've filed in response to that and anti slapp motion. I'm sorry if this is like boring for you guys, but you know it's the legal mumbo jumbo. The anti slapp motion means that we are saying to him, you've filed this harassment lot whatever. You follow the motion for harassment or restraining order to harass our client. And to intimidate her. And you can't do that. And yes, it's very costly and very costly to have to hire attorneys to have to take time away from work. You know, because if you get called into court, you don't know if you're going to be there all day, so you can't work that entire day. It's about missing appearances and missing opportunities and work engagements. And it's expensive and it's cumbersome and it's stressful and it is that's why they do this so that you'll say just make it go away, I'll stop talking. If I and again, I'm not gonna get into the terms of what was discussed in mediation. But I will say that the judge that Tuesday last Tuesday no decision was reached. I'll say that. And the judge said, okay, then you need to come back here next Tuesday. So you're listening to this on Friday. I will be back in court next Tuesday. I don't know what's going to be happening next Tuesday. But there are two matters in which the judge will have to rule on versus the harassment. Again, restraining order against me in the second would be the anti slapp motion. And I really just, I don't understand whether that's all going to be decided next Tuesday or if they're going to set a future date. I really don't know. It feels like a lot of that is up in the air. What you should probably know, however, and this is major. 21 victims have filed a lawsuit against him. And I will put a link to that complaint in the show notes. I'll also put it in our pod squads because it is of public record. Now, 21 of those victims, you will see that the plaintiffs, the victims. Will be indicated by initial and not their actual names. And that is because in an effort to protect victims of sexually related crimes, which is a very nice thing, I think. In my opinion, to be able to protect the victims, their names are not indicated. But you can read the allegations against him, which include. And I'm going to pause here for a second, so you'll be able to look this up. Okay, some of the allegations include or complaints include for damages, sexual battery..
AP News Radio
US to lift travel ban on 8 southern African countries
"The the White White House House says says it's it's lifting lifting travel travel restrictions restrictions to to eight eight southern southern African African countries countries I'm I'm Ben Ben Thomas Thomas with with the the latest latest the the restrictions restrictions were were imposed imposed last last month month in in hopes hopes of of slowing slowing the the spread spread of of the the Omicron Omicron variant variant of of covert covert nineteen nineteen after after south south African African health health officials officials first first identified identified it it there there the the move move barred barred nearly nearly all all non non US US citizens citizens who who had had recently recently been been in in South South Africa Africa or or in in nearby nearby countries countries including including Botswana Botswana Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Namibia Namibia the the suit suit too too it's it's what what teeny teeny Mozambique Mozambique and and Malawi Malawi the the White White House House says says the the temporary temporary travel travel bans bans pot pot scientists scientists necessary necessary time time to to study study Omicron Omicron conclude conclude that that current current vaccinations vaccinations are are effective effective in in blunting blunting its its impact impact the the centers centers for for disease disease control control and and prevention prevention has has recommended recommended they they be be lifted lifted on on new new year's year's eve eve Ben Ben Thomas Thomas Washington Washington
AP News Radio
Israel detects its first case of new coronavirus variant
"The Israeli health ministry says is detected the country's first case over new coronavirus variant in a traveler who's returned from Malawi the health ministry says the traveler and two other suspected cases could be placed in isolation I think the three all vaccinated without it's currently looking into the exact vaccination status a new coronavirus Verint has been detected in South Africa the song to say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gulf tango the country's most populous province I'm Charles de Ledesma
The Chalene Show
"malawi" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"And because these doctors special plastic surgeons are literally a protected class. You know, one of the most outrageous stories that I heard was from a nurse who told me a story about a woman who showed up late for her surgery. And he starts raging because this is what we call. I mean, certainly I haven't had him diagnosed, but from my perception, this is a sociopathic narcissist who doesn't care. And so this woman shows up late for her surgery. And he starts raging. Like, I hate her and he's going crazy. They get her on the table, and he's angry. And apparently at one point, she starts to like, she's in debate. She starts to slide off the table. And he shoves her back up on the table. And when she does it her head like, 'cause she's out. Her head flops to the side, and for whatever reason, this sets him off, and he grabs the tube that she's intubated with and yanks it out like a sword. And this nurse is like, you know, this means a patient could die. And he's looking around at what is going on and the doctor storms off. And the staff rushes to like re intubate her, this nurse is so upset by this that they contact the office and the doctor's wife and said, listen, I don't think doctor Malawi is in the right state of mind right now to be operating on people. It seems really, really dangerous. Here's what happened today in the OR and very, very concerned. He overstepped the rights and the bounds of the anesthesiologist who's the only person supposed to be in charge of the airway. And this is just it was so scary and this can't happen. The office managers called the nurse in the next day and said, I've talked to everybody else, and it didn't happen like that. And this nurse was like, okay, I'm going to resign. Now here's what's interesting because of my podcast and sharing my story. I had a woman reach out to me who said, I like to doctor Malawi, and it was the strangest thing ever. After my surgery, I couldn't swallow for weeks. I went in for a breast revision and she sent me photos. She was like, look at the back of my throat, the back of my throat is just ripped up and they couldn't explain to me why you're out. So it's only because of this medium that I've been able to connect the dock and here's another fun fact is the anesthesiologist that he uses has two DUIs. One of them being a hit and run. One of them that hit and run happened as is leaving work. What does he do for work? He's the doctor. And the medical board allows him to continue to practice. The medical board knows that this doctor, and because the attorney general has filed a case against this doctor, you can look it up. And they're trying to suspend or revoke his medical license based on this 2018 patient death. And in that, and you can read it because it is public record. It's hard to find, unfortunately, but you can read that it's public record in there. He describes how these two med techs are the individuals who are doing the surgery on this woman. And that's the other thing man is when I started talking to all these past employees, they were like, I hate to tell you this..
The Chalene Show
"malawi" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"He's like, well, what percentage? And I'm like, I don't know how to calculate that percentage. I would think that's maybe something you know. He goes, why are you making this so difficult? Just tell me what you want. I'm like, well, I'm trying. And I could just tell he was super annoyed with that conversation. Like it's something he has all the time. And he's like, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. He's like, all right, so I'm going to write up my suggestions for you and you can talk to Claudia, which is like their office manager. So then when we sat down, myself and my best friend, doctor Michaela, sat down with their office manager and, you know, first thing I said was like, that was crazy unprofessional. And she was like, oh, he's just such an artist. You have to understand and you know, kind of like dismissed all of our concerns. And I said, well, you know, the main thing is, I wanted, he just didn't answer any of my questions. He told me I needed all these extra things. And she was like, well, we'll come up with a plan and then we can start with what he suggested and then we can take some things off. I'm like, okay. All right, sounds good. And so then I told my husband's awkward, but I didn't tell him all the things. But my alarm bells were going off. I was already like, this is weird and strange and but you just keep excusing it. We booked the appointment. She was like, you know, listen, we don't need to figure out what you're doing today, but we need to schedule. You need to get this on the books because he's super popular and if you don't get it done by this date, I'm gonna have to push it out because he'll fill up and part of the reason why I did it was because I had this break in my schedule of being, you know, where I could go two weeks and not have to do anything. So it's the night the day before my surgery and I am getting really nervous because I started looking at his social media. By the way, his name is doctor Malawi, doctor Arian Malawi, and he goes by doctor laguna on Instagram. Now he's deleted a ton of his content because it is so cringe worthy. But when I started watching his content, I'm like, oh God, like more red flags. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm making a big mistake. He's just the way he would speak about women on the table, it just felt so I mean, you have to see it like there's women splayed out on the table and the way he talks about he rubs his hands on their bodies while they're laying there on the table and look at this. I took her from a two to a ten. This is what we do. Here are doctor laguna, and I was just like, oh my God. And there were so many people that I could tell in his posts were nude during their pre-ops and knew during their before and after photos. And I'm like, oh hell no. I'm not doing that. So I had written across all of my forms like that I did not consent to any of that photography or videography or anything. And I contacted the doctor's office the day before, and they said, are you ready for everything? I'm like, yes. But I said, however, I am really, really having some anxiety right now over the photos I'm seeing in the videos. I am completely uncomfortable with the nudity. I'm not doing anything down there. I would like to be able to wear the disposable undergarments that I see in other plastic surgeons, videos. I don't want to be photographed. I was like, you know, I said, listen, I just, I'm fine if you have to photograph my breasts. I get it. But there's no reason why you need to photograph my vajayjay. We're not doing any work down there. I don't need it out on the Internet. I don't need some disgruntled. Please. And so she was like, absolutely no problem. I'll make a note in your file. When you arrive here, we'll let them know about your concerns. I'll have a female nurse their present for you..
The Chalene Show
"malawi" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"A trauma, and we don't share it with anyone. Essentially, it's a secret. And when we keep a secret, as you've heard before, secrets keep us sick. When we're keeping a secret, it's because we believe maybe subconsciously that there's shame associated with it. So when we feel that shame and it becomes magnified in our mind, because we haven't told anyone and we feel like we've got to keep this a secret, we tend to believe that others are going to think less of us. But 99% of the time when you share your story, no one thinks less of you. People think more of you. Because it can relate to you, and that lifts the shame that you might be feeling, or the criticism or the self doubt. When you realize you have nothing to hide. When you realize, it wasn't your fault. This is something that happened. Or maybe it was your fault, but that's not who you are today. That makes you human and most people find that when they do share their story, especially the first time they have this huge weight that's lifted from them, just like they feel so much lighter and partly because you find that there's all these other people who can relate to your experience. And by sharing yours, you lift the shame from them. If someone is amazing as you are or someone who is as normal or as cool or as fill in the blank as you are, could have this trauma will then they must be an okay person too. And each time you share your story, it becomes less and less painful. It should, especially if you're in a place where you're ready to share your story. And we'll talk about that in this episode as well. The second reason why I believe it is really important to share your story when you're ready is because your trauma oftentimes develops these negative beliefs, whether it was living with an alcoholic parent, being married to a narcissistic cheater, suffering childhood, sexual abuse at the hands of a neighbor, or even the things you've done to yourself like drug addiction. Or alcoholism, all of these things, all these experiences cause us to form very negative beliefs about ourselves because of what happened. You might believe that you can't trust others or that you were a bad person or that you weren't enough. And these are, of course, false beliefs that don't serve us, but when we hide our stories when we don't share our stories, we hang onto those self critical beliefs. But it is crazy how your mindset shifts and you don't carry this heavy burden on yourself when you're able to open up about your story. I know for me personally being able to share the experience of my nightmare plastic surgery experience at the hands of this plastic surgeon, doctor laguna, doctor Malawi, like being able to share that in doing so pretty quickly help me to move through the feelings I was having. It is crazy how hard I was being on myself in the weeks and even in the first month or so after the surgery. I just was, I was like, who do I think I am? You know, how dare you record podcasts about confidence in speaking up and knowing who you are and knowing what you'll do all these things like I started to question like, am I really that person? Am I really as strong and as confident as courageous as I thought I was, and if I am, then how did I allow these things to happen? Why didn't I do this? I did so much victim blaming. And it really had to do with the fact that I was able to share my story. And hear from you, many of you who are trauma survivors saying chalene you're wrong. You've got to stop blaming yourself, what you did was to survive. And that lifted those negative beliefs. I mean, I just feel so much better about myself in that situation. I'm not blaming myself in the way that I was right after it happened. And you know, this is something oftentimes should start with a therapist. I'm going to get into that at the end here. But before we get too deep into when to know if it's time, I want to continue with convincing you of some of the reasons why it could be really powerful for you to share your story. And the third reason is because it helps you to organize your thoughts. And this was so incredibly true for me recently, it's one of the reasons why, you know, I'm not a therapist, but I would recommend that anyone who knows that they've experienced some kind of a trauma and even if you're not sure if it's a trauma, but something that happened that was an uncomfortable memory, put it on paper. Man write down as many notes and dates and just like try to word for word write down everything that happened. What you could smell what you could hear what you could taste what you were thinking, what one person said, what you said, like, everything. Because it helps you to organize what has happened. And of course, the more traumatic and experience, the more likely our brain is going to want to try to forget those details. And so then these little ideas and memories become stored as like fragments and they become very disconnected from what really happened. An experts say that sharing your trauma sharing that story helps you to organize the story as a memory and that memory being a story is really important because then it has a beginning a middle.
BBC Assignment
Nigeria Beat Liberia in World Cup Qualifiers
"News down African qualifying for the 2022 World Cup where the Leicester City striker Colecchia Natural scored twice for Nigeria, who kicked off their Group C campaign with a comfortable two nil victory of a Liberia well, Nigeria will be with that natural and other top players for their next game, however. As Cape Verde drew 11 with the Central African Republic is on the UK government's covid red list. It means that anyone entering such a country would need to quarantine for 10 days upon their return to their English Premier League club. The two time African champions Every coast were held to a goalless draw in Mozambique, sides kicking off their in Group D Cameroon had a decisive two nil win over Malawi. Also on Friday, Tunisia went top of Group B, They beat Equatorial Guinea three nil. Zambia defeated Mauritania and in the group G Open in South Africa were held nail nail in Zimbabwe, Ghana beat Ethiopia one
Democracy Now! Audio
"malawi" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Allowing musician alan mogo. This is democracy now. Democracy now dot org the warren peace report as we end today show with a groundbreaking documentary on the climate crisis and the global food system. The film is called and the aunts and the grasshopper it follows the journey of anita gitai farmer and activists in malawi with the soils food and healthy communities practice. She tries to end hunger and gender inequality in our village and tackle climate crisis in the united states. This is the film's trailer nice. Show and i have this gift. I do reach people really. How can you allow your partner to suffer with too much work. A malawian activists maria maria florida. It rains for us maybe three times a year. They did all the crops. Dry out is on.
Democracy Now! Audio
"malawi" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Allowing musician alan mogo. This is democracy now. Democracy now dot org the warren peace report as we end today show with a groundbreaking documentary on the climate crisis and the global food system. The film is called and the aunts and the grasshopper it follows the journey of anita gitai farmer and activists in malawi with the soils food and healthy communities practice. She tries to end hunger and gender inequality in our village and tackle climate crisis in the united states. This is the film's trailer nice. Show and i have this gift. Do reach people really. How can you allow your partner to suffer with too much work. A malawian activists maria maria florida. It rains for us. Maybe three times a year eighty all the crops. Dry out is.
Democracy Now! Audio
"malawi" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Allowing musician alan mogo. This is democracy now. Democracy now dot org the warren peace report as we end today show with a groundbreaking documentary on the climate crisis and the global food system. The film is called and the aunts and the grasshopper it follows the journey of anita gitai farmer and activists in malawi with the soils food and healthy communities practice. She tries to end hunger and gender inequality in our village and tackle climate crisis in the united states. This is the film's trailer nice. Show and i have this gift worse. Do reach people really. How can you allow your partner to suffer with too much work. A malawian activists maria maria florida. It rains for us maybe three times a year. They did all the crops. Dry out is.
The Leader
"malawi" Discussed on The Leader
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The Leader
"malawi" Discussed on The Leader
"From the evening standard in london. I'm david mars land and this is the leader today. We have a special program once again from the evening standard's vaccine for the wild project which is exploring the global response to the covert nineteen pandemic in this edition as leader. Let us introduce you to maggie mkandawire. An extraordinary woman who is making a huge difference in a home country of malawi. Money three smile at you prisoner. You miami's magazine and my station emmys you. When back in march twenty twenty maggie incan kandara was learning bass guitar. with ambitions. to be a musician. She had a place at the academy in malawi's capital the long way then that virus that became known as couvert nineteen hit africa. We stopped going to school. And i decided to come back home as we're waiting for schools to reopen. So i i was staying at home. Home is a twelve hour bus. Drive away from the city in a small village in the kananga district on the edge of lake balawi. It is beautiful but it's also kind of boring for a young woman who just go used to life in the bustling capital. We're just staying at home and everything was stopped and we had to find a way of sourcing manny. I met up with some friends and we started making face masks and the way from changing fabric so basic our project and every idea that we continued studied from that time on. But here's the problem. There's not a lot of money in karonga people. There aren't wearing face masks. Don't through some grand political statement because they can't afford them so we decided to help by making those facemasks and donating in schools churches and also in the communities that we could manage balawi has a growing issue with couvert nineteen a third wave is underway and the country's reporting one hundred deaths per week just two percent of its entire population has been vaccinated corner in karonga scenes Last year results. Just a kiss on convince last year and now the number because they decide Five hundred fifty cases allies. Fear is the district senior health officer. Few people at fish. To what extent your musk's you could even see them wearing masks. Several days watching them so much project was trying to teach people that the thing you must be would in a day and then you should go wash and then possibly the next day you should either put on. You must or that one. We would have tried by the next day people. Now wanting masks maggie's droop moser not began expanding motorbiking around karonga to teach taylor's how to make reusable ones a traditional cotton fabric culture. Tangy solve around nine pence far more affordable than disposable ones. Donations are also made to the most vulnerable but facemasks can only do so much. What malawi needs vaccines and it. Also needs people to take them. It wasn't event put on for the cameras. Twenty thousand doses of malawi's covered nineteen vaccine allocation laid out to be destroyed. The gantry defied calls from the world health organization to not do so the malawi health minister ziemba condo says presided over the incineration with me Me that they get worried. That did 'cause we have destroyed. This exist they will not have enough. No as can we committed that. We have some which we're using now but was going to get more to with each our target. Which is having at least eleven million malawi getting astrazeneca back saying the burning of thousands of expired vaccine doses. In malawi in june was deliberately stage managed to be shock. The government wanted the public to see it and persuade the hesitant to get injected that fighting against the tidal wave of rumor speculation and misinformation. Why some people willing to take the vaccine is because of the misinformation that was around in the social media Some of this which are on the district is possibly issue. The you want to be able to be chagrin. Oh this is connected like it's an engineered virus on then. The which was also very in the district was that the vaccine is a sign of six six six. There were saying that you should get vaccine. Then you're draining the southern cart as much fama when we sat down. We're making us musk's form changing. We thought it would be better that we broadcast this information to a larger scale. I'm here to share radio station. So were waking hand in hand with two hundred hundred radio station so that they help us broadcast. They information more into the pot of awareness on sundays team magazine. Doing a weekly show on radio stations. Busting those myths as they arrive at an addition to sharing the moser not far in addition to continuing to make sure those facemask and made in addition to speaking to local people face to face. It's a huge amount of work for a twenty four year old. Who a couple years ago just wanted to play music in a band but it is working. The lies fearless is grateful. That's why when you see our figures. When we're studying i think would vaccinate printed people pay day the people that day but as time goes one with mugs porject going into the in into the community. We formed that.
S.T.A.R. Parents
"malawi" Discussed on S.T.A.R. Parents
"I definitely be the. He'll this is powerful to me. Because i said again i believe healed woman. He'll the people In a heal me and heal the nation. And i think that the sisters healing just not just coming together on instagram. Y'all like coming together for real like less respect each other for real less be communities for each other And that is living out your purpose. So i just wanna thank you for Bringing us back to that space where we remember while we need each other absolutely and we always want to sign a light on our lights and stars and so we know that michelle is doing amazing things. So i would just like for user. Tell us what some of those are at how we can support to. Well thank you again. My business is malawi's house in it's a healing wellness business. I like to throw that in there. i just became recently of being comfortable with saying that you know and walking and as a light and being a healer and sometimes you don't feel comfortable with sharing that but i feel comfortable in this so what we do at malawi's house. We provide berthing supplies. Birth kids and postpartum kerry essentials and Just recently became a holistic dula. So that is another service that will be at it to Malawi's house yes. Hey excited diving a little bit deeper into the service part of what we were talking about earlier. And would you like me to share where everyone can find us absolutely and we always played links to all of our wonderful guests in the episode details On apple podcasts. Spotify youtube so but definitely tell us where to find. Uk absolutely. You can find us at malawi house. Www dot we are malawi's house dot com in malawi is spelled m. a. l. a. w. i s. and in house h. o. u. s. And you can find us on instagram and facebook at malawi's
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malawi" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"For about an hour. It's ridiculous cell. Phones would have been handy back then. That's for sure so that's kind of what we did all day. Dispaced back and forth between the farms to drop off. Seedlings want the other funding to to bruce's farm. Or i just kind of Lie down. Because i could barely walk foot was killing me and then we decided that we're going to go to the club for dinner that night. So merrill had led me address to where. I hated that law. Hey that lov no shorts larry so after dinner kabir's there was good. 'cause bruce paid for all the Vervins dinners thousand is and then got back. Tens of i just crashed there the next morning i got i thought it'd been run over by truck cappelli walker mike flood but i could barely walk period. I had to severe head is like a head was in vice. Started hallucinating again. I had the sheds which were green muncy. I could literally by the end of the day. I was crawling to the bathroom. Like luckily i had one of the main bedrooms. So i have is an thankfully. And then i started puking a had nothing in my stomach so it was like just bile and i you know shitting bile. Oh my gosh. It was brutal so our new is getting really dehydrated as well and just so so sick. And that's an bruce. David came over and they were like. I think he got malaria. And i was like yeah i think so too. So that's awesome. Well i was so sick for two days. I couldn't even move me. And then i just kept getting worse and worse and worse and then a guy said right. We're just gonna put a mattress in the back of the pickup. And we're just gonna lay on. Just go back to blantyre and take a to the doctor's like asap. Bruce had to carry me out of his room. The girls packed up committed and have a lot packed up my stuff. Put me in the Cuts of blantyre course. the doctor. The doctor was closed until four. Pm so we had to wait at two goals. Finally four o'clock go there. I got tested hideaway by our for results found out. Yes i had. Malaria as well as dysentery so probably got dysentery from taking out the stream. My guess so not just play but dysentery on top. No one are so sick and still climbing mountains and style plus my illness as well kicked in. So there's three. Massive things are happy received nine. So i got medication for the malaria and as well as antibiotics for my foot and it was bacteria dysentry so the as while just went back to david just gave me my own room in the ex-luxembourg been camping before so i had my own name because it needed to be close to a bathroom castillo diarrhea and was still peaking. Luckily the boys. Because mike was still there for days precise back to the farm david as well stay for a couple days so they were checking on me all the time plus all the other travelers that was still their new malaria. I was looked after very very well. Which is very lovely. And i now call me malania because every single person i pretty much got malaria in malawi. And most those people were on malaria prophylactics. I was on them..
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malawi" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"Because i didn't think i'd see a began. So we kinda reunited. Couple of american girls met soap. Just lots of people's it was really cold. And then ron decided he was gonna move into my tent with me. Was like okay. 'cause he's only there for two nights i think and the to american girls christine. Emily i was going to climb malange. He's the mountains near blantyre. We're going to do that in a couple of days. So we organized that which is called and the two greek malawians who give me the right to deals. They came in so. We ended up all having a big game of volleyball in the backyard. So that was lots of fun. And then we all had a fish dinner at the guest house and a couple beers and a pretty early. With ron. In the ted had loaded kissing snogging going on just crash basically next day woke up filling really really bad. I just thinking yeah. Something's not right. I know my blind on this stuff but this is something else. It was so weird because it just kept coming in ways like it started in zomba take. That was kind of my first wave. Be okay one day. And the next i was just kind of every wave seems to get worse as well so i ended up going into town with rum. Aaron and richard. We got some groceries. 'cause we're gonna have a big dinner at the guest house that night. Once we got back. I just had to have a knob which worked out well for me. The boys just did all the cooking. So yeah we had the chicken potatoes carrots beans gravy. It was really good. It was nice to like a whole. It's a house right so it really felt very. Homely implicit was with lots of people. I knew especially ron richard narran because i hung out with them for weeks in the corner bay is really nice. They on something that annoyed may so he went to bed in the and i stayed up for another hour so waiting for healthy he'd fall asleep that i got the ted and that was on last night together so not ideal really so i wanted to kind of get going. But the girls. Emily and christie's they couldn't go to haji to the following day. So i had to wait another day in tired two goals. You know it's not about place to hang. That's for sure but then david the owner came in 'cause he you know he'd be out he was in there all the time. I was running the place for a few days. Like i do be day. He's like yeah. You read the giant Game you think your family. He did feel like my big brother away. Actually so is he rocks. He's like well. Hey do you wanna come to tobacco farm with me. 'cause tobacco there's lots of tobacco around blantyre that's grown their share. You know as board as i point out so i left a note for emlyn christie. 'cause they are out saying okay. I'll meet you hajjis tomorrow. At the base morning some days farm. It was one hundred. I didn't realize that. One hundred twenty ks away from blantyre. So i went with mike oasis big guy on those two hundred pounds but he was a driver between do goals in blantyre duels in harare zimbabwe. So he's hard drive back and forth and you get the you pay price small price basically to go from one guest house to another which was good so mike was one of the drivers to win winners..
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malawi" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"May routes travel dot com double in traveled overseas straight on youtube. Okay see you there and enjoy the show cheers. So it's episode. Forty six and is upset is going to be about why time climbing zomba plateau as well as going to blantyre in malawi and also dealing with malaria for the first time not good. I definitely don't recommend it so also going to be covering a two hundred and fifty miles on this episode. Takes us up to twenty thousand two hundred and fifty miles picking up where we left off on the last episode. I finally left nakata bay after three weeks and cape clear for five days as traveling on my own again and i was in zomba hadn't been feeling that great for last couple of days as had a few infections on my legs but a really bad one in my foot from a sea urchin spine from when i jumped onto better see our chins obviously accidentally in zanzibar so when the spines got infected. But i did get it out. I was finding pieces. Spines coming on my feet for months for after bars. Ridiculous not onto percent. And of course. I decided i'm going to climb a mountain dot. I feel. I have a rare blood on that had kicked in. That's why i thought it was so he l. over as well but i was just like okay well are just going to climb this plateau. It'll be fine so day. Two hundred eighty six. And i said off to climb this plateau zoa plateau. It's about two thousand meters to storers. Six thousand feet and it kind of comes out of nowhere at beautiful area is about one hundred and thirty square kilometers. So it's mostly forests mixed vegetation as well as farmland. So as i was walking towards it. I kind of asked a few locals. Like is there a path i do. I get up there. And they said go on the potato path and point to me in the direction size like okay so start heading up that while i think the potato path was basically the fastest way up there because he was literally just straight up. So i got about halfway and to sweat buckets to our get halfway and then. Luckily there was a quite a posh there. So i popped in. There used bathroom because i stupidly. Didn't water bottle idiot. So i drank some water in the bathroom and then headed off again. Still really no idea what i was doing at a coming to the forest and then i found stream so i just kinda follow that stream for quite awhile again..
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malawi" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"One dollars five super. He said come back in a couple loud then went to the post office to my mom because i was pretty sure she'd want to speak to your birthday and it was six dollars for three minute phone call but then she could come back on the pay phone outside. The post office suggested that and talk to her about half an hour so he's caught up with all the news from home as she said she'd also sent me a money order to dang guest house for my birthday and because i was really really running low on money so that was good. I had to stay there in the corner bay until that money came through which was not a problem at all and i was also expecting to hear from friends. Home san carter bay or day guests as was claire. My friend who. I travelled together two months around with. I did get a letter from friends of mine. Stephen nikki who i'd met kenya so that was a nice surprise. I've supposed officer went back to hang god. Guest house picked up my pots band. Bane which is super bumped into peter the sky at zanzibar and he had a letter from norman. Brady too crazy. Irish guy hung out with zanzibar who wishing me happy birthday and there was a twenty dollars. Zimbabwean note inside with like by yourself a couple of beers From us so that was really sweet. Told peter about my birthday. he's okay. Yep i'll be there. Did you said back turned speech and chill the rest of the ashfeen snapping and swimming in smoking's more couple more beers decimates was really nice. Veggie soup so we had thought and then they brought out a special banana cake with the candidate in sung heavy princeton. Should be serious. 'cause you get these in malawi. The grass miracle cobs wrapped in corn hustle. Look like a corner calm. And they were so chilly he had one for like a between one and two dollars ridiculous and then locals would make normal banana cakes the special banana e provided them with the cob or they would provide it for lecture more we try to piece of that and then headed back into town to the heart hotel and it was great because again like people just kept coming like rolling into audubon. Date my birthday so there ended up being about fifteen to twenty of us in heart hotel. Are we started playing drinking games. Oh my gosh. yeah that's the saying. I got quite drunk and didn't spend a penny people just kept climbing y beers so so the two danish guys was supposed to crime coverage with but after climbing kelly. They showed up so that was really cool. I don't even. I have no idea what time it was nighttime. That's for sure. And we run is run and i was the. Qb hinman is really flirting and we stumbled up that bloody each got his ages. Few wipeouts chronic onto the beach and chief. Who is this lovely old local guy. He was the watchman on the beach and basically which he would. Just get a bonfire going every night and oil. Hot water for cups tease. Because you know you leave all your stuff on this beach right when you go into town. So chief was watchmen. And you just would. We would just tip him every day because he was free to camp on the beach so no problems there in arms. I love chief. He was the loveliest man. Oh my god so got back. He gave me a big birthday hug. And i pretty much passed out right by the bonds for a few hours. They will not managed by bad ad was out like a light though next boring the state rather hungover hyperx lucite fried eggs on my new little pan which works and cup of tea and just cut some raise. The best time to tan was between eight and eleven. am because otherwise. It gets too hot. So i did that for few hours. And then ron earn. And i walked back into tara on to pick up some more foods to bring back to the beach while we did stop and have some really delicious pancakes yet. Just kind of went back to the beach and chilled out. So that was it. I was just very impressed myself that i made it nicole. Okay so that is a wrap for my birthday episode for this week. So make sure you subscribe in tune in for next week when you'll hear more about karma bay in what are the channing is on our too early and now it's time for thames. Talk to tip. Number one is yes. You need a visa from lowry but you get when online now much easier or you get still get one on arrival. It's seventy five dollars for single entry three months visa or you can get a multiple entry six months vs at four hundred fifty or there's also a one year multiple entry for two hundred fifty dollars tip number. Two is pretty much still have to do. Like if you're coming from dr unless you fly of course but you know me. I'm all of it. Overland travel still to this day for night street. When i did it to now get the same way to get the bathroom dar-es-salaam to bail which is about fifteen dollars till takes about eleven hours. Stop it is nine hundred. Forty one miles so plan on. Today's if not three days for that journey and then from obey to the junction the junction near to the border. And then you go to the malawian border and then you get to karonga the first town in malawi. It so yeah. It's a bit of a mission tip. Three is for cod bay. Which is the most northerly place in. Malawi caribbean vibe. And it has changed so much from when i was there. It's crazy 'cause i went back to nakada bait on my way backup so six months later i was there again and it changed completely from that. You can camp on the beach anymore. Because all these resorts were going up our beach huts on the beach and now even have proper hotels with polls name changed quite a lot although it still looks lovely and still. Has that caribbean vibe. And you can do a lot more there now again. More organized snorkel kayak force walks along the cliffs and you can even see eagles there so nowadays. It's probably between twenty two one hundred dollars a night out depending on what kind of combination wanna get. And i'd say daily budget for malawi. A budget budget. I can i travel. You're probably about twenty five to sixty dollars and the kwacha while so. When is there like the bank rate. Just over four kwacha to win. Us dollars black market with at six and a half to seven huff quarterback nowadays seven hundred ninety five kwacha to warn us dot so malawi still remain sadly one of the poorest countries in africa and the people are so amazing. And so nice. It's quite sad but see inflation like understand why and then for solo female travelers yet. It's law is really really. Save a never had a problem there..
CodeNewbie
What good soft skills look like with Kristen Palana
"Is joining us. Thanks for having us. I think for having us for some added context leon is also my wife and has been with our company almost since the beginning circus and you have a long impressive resume of all the things you do. Tell us a little bit about your background. Sure i'm actually coming to you from malawi in southern africa where have been living since twenty. Nineteen i'm actually Doing are in communication for two. Un organizations unfpa in unison have background is a university professor. And i'm scared to say that. It's been since two thousand but i was in my twenties when it started so i'm not that old i've been working with people on four continents students and other artists and workers. And what have you and soft skills. Actually a huge difference between someone doing really well and sort of fizzling out enough they're quote unquote really talented. Some looking forward to talking about it more. We actually found you through a highly rated you to meet horse titled soft skills clear success how to be excellent at work. How did you start teaching these skills. It's funny because your professors when you're in university probably one of their least favourite things they have to do. but we'll do is be an academic advisor. They tell you what classes you're supposed to take and if you get a good one the lawsuit can help you get into the career that you want and give you advice and i actually. Even though i wasn't looking forward to doing these meetings all day long. I found that i was actually quite good at it. And so alongside teaching our digital media illustration and animation. I found that my students were coming to me quite a lot for advising and i was teaching in new york city in new jersey and then for ten years in rome italy and then three years ago we moved to men mar and they're actually wasn't my field in the universities there so i started teaching for organizations and ad agencies. They're junior staff helping them. Be more confident at work. Be more able to ask questions able to give presentations basically not be so timid. So that's sort of how. I started with the soft skills class i. It was an online resource to a live training. I did in men mar and then once that was over i put it online and opened it up to a more international audience and now i'm helping also students here in malawi with that as well
HOMOGROUND
Homophonix Artist Interviews: Rainbow Riots
"We begin in Stockholm. It is true that Sweden produces an astonishing amount of legendary music small country. Third and world music exports after the US and the UK. No surprise that within the queer communities are Sweden there exists a bevy of talent. Rainbow Reports is a nonprofit organization using arts and coach as tools to advocate for human rights, LGBT Iq, plus people globally. Now. More than ever. Our focuses humane humans should be equality and acceptance for all. It is clear that social justice is not yet where it should be, which is why arts and coach organizations like Rainbow, riots exist if you're lucky enough to live in a country where there oiled ubt brides, a lot of times people get complacent and they think, oh, this is the norm. This is the standard while it ain't Jinnai they're like seventy plus countries in the world grades illegal with same sex relations and where people get killed where where. A death penalty sometimes. Free. Sometimes I think we have freedom, but the struggle still continues. The filed the torture still continues. The fight for freedom still continues. Let's put our hands together for freedom for freedom. Through Rainbow Riots Hitter Lemberg brings to light the ongoing injustices faced by LGBT plus family worldwide. With a background in music production visuals, events publication in community projects combined with an amazingly generous creative spirit. Is Well to use music and media to inform and educate. Rainbow riots invited artists from several countries to take part in a concert as part of the Stockholm pride two, thousand and seventeen. They also made their presence known within the pride parade from the back of a truck proudly blasting out there incredible musical achievements. I asked Peta which countries were represented. On the rainbow riots flow we had a representatives from Sweden what and we had Uganda Kenya. We had Malawi and we had Jamaica. One of the standout tracks from that for me was a song called freedom. See the crowd. Jumping into. Heard? Freedom. To it in such a way can you tell me up freedom came about when I started making freedom which I co? Bro With? Lesbian rapid called you'll be she's A. Legendary rap group in this in the states called. And when we wrote it, it was kind of like part of my old project housing Wallenberg and kind of thought. It was going to be part of that. But then as I started gravitating towards doing something with Queer activism around the world I, started turning my movement Rainbow Rides into a creative project and I thought well, freedom should be part of that. Really. So that's when I went down to Uganda and started working in Uganda 'cause I thought if I'm going to make this album with queer voices from the world's most dangerous places I've gotta go to the belly of the beast which is Uganda. So I thought okay. Well, I've got to go there ain't going to be nice in preschool ad. And before I went like my passport was running out, so yeah, they add to reissue a possible at the Swedish apple before my flight and they gave me a pink. And I thought. How appropriate with driving along well, exactly Scotland I'm going into Uganda practically waving rainbow flags. This is not going to end well because I was not sure what to expect the anything I'd seen and heard was that nobody nobody in Uganda who was queer was safe and everybody was you know hiding whenever you saw an interview with somebody they will always hiding behind a blood pixellated sort of thing and and not just come to know people going to want to be part of this project. Is it going to be really difficult? What am I going to expect? So therefore came prepared with a song that I'd already written which with freedom I thought at the best maybe I can get some people to dogs in the video at least will have something. But when I arrived, I found a thriving queer community with love creativity and that's how the project started. When I arrived in Uganda realized wow I could really make a whole out I could turn this into something much bigger or they're already artists to establish themselves within the community who were making music. N You lots of quiz singers and performers an artist, and I ended up right in the middle of it. So you know I arrived armed with one song and you know it turned into an album of freedom was starting song, and of course, a features my my old correcting partner you'll be of your majesty but also features a Ugandan singer cold deep lack on bicycle and also on the spoken word intro and the thing about freedom was the I always knew that it was really instant kind of be happy pride song and I just wanted to dot context to put it in. Something else. So it's not just the body, song? To. Put it into context of something really really important life and death and I kinda thought what what better way to to get the message out to make people ons. That was to make them listen.
BBC World Service
Lazarus Chakwera inaugurated as Malawi's new president
"Lazarus Chakwera is expected to be sworn in as Malawi's new president later after his victory in a re run election Mr Junqueras told supporters the result was a win for justice and his heart was bubbling with joy he's on Africa editor will Ross this is a hugely significant moment in Malawi's political history and is evidence that neither the courts nor the electorate will prepare to be bullied or influenced by presidential power other countries in Africa of hot elections annulled but for the opposition candidate to then go on and win a rerun is unprecedented Peter mystery because narrow victory in last year's poll was canceled by the Constitutional Court after evidence emerged that correction fluid being used to alter the vote tallies he turned to the Supreme Court for help judges that came under a lot of pressure but stood
BBC World Service
Malawi starts voting in a rerun of the presidential poll
"People in Malawi of voting in a rerun of the presidential elections five months after the results of last year's disputed votes were annulled the main opposition parties have United under a single candidate to take on president Peter Mutasa recapped his Emmanuel guns at the polls are taking place and a new law that abolished the first past the post system the winner now needs to secure an absolute majority of fifty percent plus one vote after months of political uncertainty and sometimes violent protests Malawi remains deeply divided the economy is struggling poverty and unemployment hi the government has faced growing criticism for failing to tackle rampant corruption these are just some of the issues Malawians hope will be solved today's historic
The World
Malawi to go to polls again, after first election nullified
"They Connie is struggling it's actually shrinking in Malawi food shortages and hunger had been serious challenges before the corona virus cover nineteen only major challenges in southern Africa harder so when Malawians go to the polls this week to elect a new president all of this will be on their minds the world's only make a Condi has our story for millions of Malawians planning to vote for president tomorrow there's a sense of deja vu that's because the country just had a presidential election last year in may the incumbent president Peter Mutharika narrowly won with thirty eight percent of the vote he's been in office since two thousand fourteen international election monitors said it was a free fair and democratic contest but many Malawians didn't feel that way demonstrators across the country Hughes president of stealing the election the runner up opposition candidate Lazarus Chakwera did too so he took the issue to court to dollar packaging was too late is the president of the women lawyers association of Malawi she said the law is constitutional court noted several irregularities in the first election they are very good at it he's running strong the use of different parishes may require internal errors with the use of two banks was the right thing the two picks that she's referring to here was a white correctional fluid used on ballots apparently electoral officers used it to correct the so called voting errors this was only one issue that led to allow this court to take an unprecedented step in February they nullified the results of last year's election record even stays late ninety five elections because they leave plus the regular entities that affected the will of the people not brings us to Tuesday's vote once again the incumbent president with the recount is running against Lazarus to Cora a former pastor Bonnie faster Lani is a political scientist at the university of Malawi he says most Malawians are happy to have the chance to vote again they call me certainly it is very bad right state tourney recently published a poll finding that eighty five percent of Malawians feel their country's headed in the wrong direction under president with the Rica check where a is running on a message of change he says he wants to turn the country around improve the lives of poor people and fight corruption check where spoke about his platform during the weapon are on Friday so we have come up with an approach that says let the farmers out there get out of abject poverty to quit Aurora is promising to help farmers and create new jobs and despite the pandemic his campaign has attracted big crowds of supporters on the other side president Vikas campaign efforts have been relatively quiet another recent poll predicted check where I could beat with every guy in this election that sounds good to G. M. T. ECA she's a party vendor and the capital of the long way whose business has been hurting badly antica says she hopes this election it will be a turning point for Malawi I think tomorrow the government is changing in but I would I would be very happy for that if not doesn't happen Bonnie foster Lani says he worries that Chakwera supporters might say the election was rigged again and even if he does win Duong he says turning around the economy won't be easy that's not to forget the coronavirus the electoral commission has said it will put out hand washing stations and enforce social distancing at polling places the election results for the presidential vote and allow we are expected later this week
Climate Connections
To adapt to climate change, some tea growers must plan ahead
"T is the second most consumed drink on earth after water but in many places. Climate Change threatens tea production for example in Kenya. Malawi Africa's top tea producing countries. They are experiencing warmer temperatures average and higher frequency off hot weather events. That's no middle. A research fellow at the University of Leeds in the UK. She says during a heat wave the leaves on tea. Bushes can scorch and turn Brown. Drought can make the problem. Even worse middle is part of a project that generates site specific predictions of Future T. growing conditions in Kenya and Malawi. Growers can use the information to adapt for example by planting shade trees near crops or starting to grow more heat tolerant varieties of tea. It takes eight to nine. Ni Os for newly planted T- Bush to become productive and an average economic life cycle of T. Bush is around sixty to eighty years. So middle says the choices. Growers make now will affect their livelihood for decades to come this highlights. How crucial informed longtime decision making is for the sector? I think to know what the future holds is really important for. The
Second Opinion
Why COVID-19 Might Hit African Nations Hardest
"Kovic is occupying a great amount of our tension. We talk about restaurant closures. The economy allocating respirators. And all of these are important. But in some ways they are first world problems in a country like Malawi located in Southern Africa. There is a population of eighteen million people. A life expectancy of only sixty four years but there is little to no healthcare system to speak of health authorities know. There are cove infections. But it's not clear how many we can't even really respond based on where we are in the epidemic. When we have no idea how many cases we actually have. That's Dr Anne Holt. A wild animal veterinarian who lives and works in. Malawi. I caught up with her via skype. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Dr Anne Holt explained. Why social distancing is so difficult to do there? I mean we're talking. Three quarter of the people here are living on less than dollar twenty five a day about eighty percent of the rurally. Social isolation is totally impossible. In part that's because life in Malawi is not easy. People don't spend the day inside a house. Generally so house would be one or two rooms with toilet and shower outside no windows. No electricity and no running. Water and allowing women on average has a four to five children. If you're not going to work going to the market every day then you have no means of feeding yourself. People are doing their best. They try to limit their contact and clean their hands. But there is not even running water with like of running water. Basically what people have is a bucket that's full of water with a tap at the bottom and someone there with gloves who's turning it on and letting people wash their hands with soap so local and national leaders in Malawi have some difficult decisions to make. They could choose to impose strict social isolation which makes great public health sense or they could choose to cause the least disruption to the hard life. People Are Living. Some advocate and aggressive push to flatten the curve. Reduce the spread but others disagree. I'm not sure flattening. The curve is in the best interest of society. Because what you have is your prolonging the timeframe of the epidemic and you're prolonging potentially the economic consequences but if you do nothing the infection will certainly spread and there are few resources to care for those with serious illness in Malawi. Were only eleven hospital beds for every ten thousand people but I think the closure of businesses and the disruption of livelihood is likely not going to house a positive effect in terms of lives saved and it is going to have a negative effect economically mentally and in terms of lives lost to non corona deaths so during times of pandemics the choices facing world leaders are difficult and many will choose to follow a different direction based on what is best for their country their economy and their culture.
UN News
Dozens of migrants die in shipping container on truck in Mozambique
"Well in Mozambique on Tuesday fourteen deeply. Traumatized male migrants were rescued from a sealed shipping container on a lorry bound for South Africa. According to the International Organization for Migration Sixty four other men on the truck died from US. Fixation an interview with you and uses. Daniel Johnson. Iom's Sondra Black explains where the migrants came from and what the agencies doing to raise awareness about the dangers of such journeys lever the tragic news yesterday morning that the bodies of sixty four migrants were found in the back of a truck that had come from Malawi. The survivors reported that they were from Ethiopia and that they're on their way to South Africa in search of better opportunities for their own lives. Iowa most is in close contact with the National Migration Service of Mozambique in order to provide immediate assistance for the survivors. Do you know how they found the truck required to pull over at a checkpoint and police spoke with the driver asked him the contents of the vehicle where Austin to open the back of the truck and very sadly those bodies where found but we were glad. At least there's fourteen survivors. Thank goodness there. Were some survivors. It really does sound horrific. Do you have any more details? About where the migrants came from a- they all men are there any women and children. All of the migrants are men. No minors no. When we realized that these men were travelling from Malawi. And they're coming from Ethiopia with the goal of reaching South Africa. We have seen similar incidents in the past car accidents of migrants who are coming from Horn of Africa who are attempting to travel to South Africa in search of education and economic opportunity of course traveling down through Mozambique Malawi areas. That were really really hit by two massive tropical storms Kennedy. What's the situation for migrants? I mean it's tough enough for many in. Mozambique so are they not aware that conditions are absolutely dire for many in Mozambique on their way through to South Africa. Mozambique is along this southern Africa routes where we see migrants coming from eastern Africa traveling down to South Africa but we still in Mozambique have over one hundred thousand people in resettlement sites. The country is still recovering from SCICLUNA die and cyclone. That happened one year ago. We realized that these migrants are looking for educational and Economic Opportunities. Some of them are fleeing violence so they may feel themselves to be in desperate situations. I'm would've you manage to find out from these migrants not necessarily those rescued from the latest. Laurie tragedy. What does it they tell you? What are they looking for? Exactly the situation that some of these migrants are fleeing is fleeing hardship in their countries fleeing poverty. There may be fleeing islands. They may not have the opportunities that they need in order to find employment to support their families so that they feel that migration is an opportunity to improve their circumstance so they choose to leave their homes many in this region we see them travelling to South Africa. So what's the IOM's daily work if you like? What's your objective? Both in preventing people from risking their lives in really dangerous journeys down from the east of Africa to the south. And how do you maybe get some people home repatriate them? That's one of the International Organisation of Migration Semaine functions to isn't it? I O N Mozambique in cooperation with other missions. The South Africa where involved in information-sharing we want migrants to realize the dangers of these irregular migration journeys. We also have a project. In order to voluntarily return migrants to their home countries. We have returned over several hundred migrants. Who WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA? Who did not find the opportunities that they were looking for and wanted to voluntarily return to their home country so just from from Mozambique. We've returned over three hundred migrants Mozambican migrants in the past few years from South Africa and finally in terms of covert nineteen preparedness. What can you tell us about the state of play in? Mozambique the moment many cases of infection there are a few cases of coveted nineteen in Mozambique. This question is best placed for the World Health Organization but all UN agencies are in support of the government of Mozambique the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization to respond to this
Morning Edition
Africa has been spared so far from coronavirus
"The Australian farmers may have receded but coronavirus has surged yet again just like we feared it might when we talked about the rise in global cases last week it's on all continents except Antarctica which hardly counts but still Africa is being only touched slightly but that he's with the world health experts fear the impacts could be the greatest if the virus does take hold because of the many health challenges already facing the continent Saudi organ solo helped establish a pan African infection prevention network after the ibotta outbreaks of twenty fourteen and fifteen and she's a professor of clinical microbiology at the university of lake house since a bola all the twenty nine Lavery trees across the country have the capability this last case we tested the two this was done at my university the it's been a lot of training in terms of collecting samples we've done that with a single patient we have a word presently monitoring the suspect and the contact over the station you mentioned V. po la not forgotten until I read your article the a bona had reached Nigeria nexus because you were able to handle it quite quickly which must be encouraging to you the fear of the boiler allowed us to do a lot of things in a way it also helped us to evaluate the structures we had in place which had not been tested but these structures are not evenly spread out across the country one of the reasons we were successful was because he came to legal state our legal state hi good public health infrastructure and so it was not difficult to scale all and at that time the other thing that happened was that we were able to come together so you had public sector private sector everybody works together all from different political parties with their parties aside the people in the U. epidemiologist posing with incumbent in the university is works together so there were a lot of feet on the ground and I was part of this response and it was I mean it was quite heavy for us to wake up in the morning you go to the emergency operations center which we have around the country's now and have all been activated because of this virus present we've had the NCDC that's the Nigeria centre for disease control has been empowered how does this work has been in the tracking of Lassa fever right now I agree to warranty is Lassa fever we having an epidemic of last a few which is more deadly than the coronavirus for us the death rates are worse and so when running actually at this present time working on Twitter that makes at the same time when I listen to the World Health Organization press conferences that comes across to me as one of that worries that it's the additional strain that may be put on Africans health services as opposed to the just the coronavirus the fact that there are other issues and the sort of the strength in depth of some services may be tested we will be tested definitely some countries for short like South Africa will be quite ready and have a lot more systems in place I'm some countries of war and I suspect some of the west African country is a work ID hit by a bullet this is how we can healthcare systems so they're less prepared we trained people from Ethiopia Namibia Malawi I think the G. five countries and we're going to go up on next week to train another twenty three countries so how ready every countries I can't tell you show a lot of countries are still young in the area of preparedness and notes are not as strong and as
BBC World Service
Malawi receives 17 black rhinos from South Africa
"Seventeen critically endangered black rhinos have been moved successfully from because soon to tell province in South Africa to Malawi as part of an anti poaching exercise in southern Africa yes Simon Hancock the animals weighing around one point four tons each were taken by errand ready to live on the national park near Milan always border with Mozambique the project involved the African parks conservation organization working with which is soldiers to train ranges in which you sing the illegal trade so far two hundred ranges of being trained in Malawi and no high value species have been posted in the warm the for the least two years
BBC World Service
British troops help relocate critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi
"Seventeen critically endangered black rhinos have been moved successfully from because soon to tell province in South Africa to Malawi as part of an anti poaching exercise in southern Africa yes Simon Hancock the animals weighing around one point four tons each were taken by errand ready to live on the national park near Milan always border with Mozambique the project involved the African parks conservation organization working with which is soldiers to train ranges in which you sing the illegal trade so far two hundred ranges of being trained in Malawi and no high value species have been posted in the warm the for the least two years
Bill Cunningham
Prince Harry in Malawi on climate change: 'No one can deny science'
"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in little Archie into our continuing their ten day royal tour of Africa Terry doubles down on an issue that's close to his heart conservation heading to Malawi to meet with the men and women fighting against poachers and working with African parks organization he's president of. earlier in the tour hearing was in box one on a working visit or you spoke about the urgency to combat climate change is an emergency that we all it's it's a race against time one which we are losing and cold out anyone who doesn't believe in its science. tonight I don't understand how anyone in this world river are you lost children leaders rivers as no one can deny signs otherwise we live in a very very troubling world it's ABC's make a ruling
WBZ Morning News
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Kick Off Africa Tour With a Dance
"Its prince Harry a mega Markle's first official tore as a family A. B. C.'s Maggie Rowley says the royal couple kicked off their trip in Cape Town South Africa for ten days the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said new baby Archie who barely five months old is one of the youngest Royals to ever go on tour will travel to South Africa but hearing going on to Botswana Angola and Malawi the couple famously visited Botswana just weeks after meeting their love marked for ever and Megan's engagement ring with a diamond from the country Harry a magnum will give clothing books and other items to an Africa based charity the trains and employees women living with HIV S. community health