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...regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
...Characters speak in several of South Africa's official languages, and the series is subtitled in English. It has been shown in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi and Barbados and has been dubbed into French and Portuguese for showing in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and other countries. "This concept has got legs," says Japhet. "It moves...
...Rescue and relief operations were stepped up to help hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans under threat from flood waters sweeping down the Zambezi River following torrential rains over southeastern Africa. At least 60 people have been killed and the raging waters are already affecting tens of thousands in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The floods-which come a year after Mozambique's worst deluges in decades, in which 700 people died-have left more than 80,000 homeless...
Nothing will improve in Africa without a drastic change of attitude. Take Malawi, where the government, which had denied the existence of the disease in the country, has launched an AIDS-awareness campaign. This type of action must eventually take place everywhere in Africa. The West can make it happen faster by declaring that the leaders of the sub-Saharan African countries are guilty of genocide of their own people, and by imposing sanctions right away. CHEM COHEN Vancouver...
They do now. According to a lawmaker, AIDS has killed dozens of Members of Parliament in the past decade. And Malawi's government has begun to move. President Bakili Muluzi incorporates AIDS education into every public rally. In 1999 he launched a five-year plan to fight the disease, and last July he ordered a crackdown on prostitution (though the government is now thinking of legalizing it). At the least, his awareness campaign appears to be working: 90% of Malawians know about the dangers of AIDS. But that knowledge comes too late for the estimated 8% of HIV-positive citizens...