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	Southern African Development Community
		Headed by a Chairman, at the moment President Nelson Mandela from South Africa, and a Vice-Chairman, at the moment Sir Ketumile Masire President of Botswana, who are elected for an agreed period, the Summit meets at least once a year.
		Headed by the Executive Secretary, who is appointed by the Summit, it is also charged with the organisation and management of SADC meetings, the financial and general administration, as well as the representation and promotion of the SADC.
		The head of the Petroleum and Coal Department is Mr Zacarias Mavungo.
	www.itcilo.it /english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/blokit/sadc.htm (1674 words)

	MALAWI
		Furthermore, Malawi is aware that hunger and famine, irrespective of their cause, but commonly precipitated by war, drought, poverty and natural disasters, are a serious and complex problem requiring urgent multi-sectoral and global attention.
		Malawi is a land-locked country in Southern Africa bordered by Tanzania to the north, Zambia to the north-west and Mozambique to the south, with a land area of 119 000 kms
		Malawi's hope and survival lies in the precious natural resources such as the fertile soils and fresh water resources which we are endowed with.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/x0736m/rep2/malawi.htm (2074 words)

	MALAWI
		Malawi's indigenous natural forests are part of the customary land and are open to the use of members of the community.
		Most of the women heads of households encountered work twice as hard as the married ones, since they must look for ganyu employment, for which they are remunerated far less than a man for similar tasks, in addition to cultivating both their dryland and wetland fields and to caring for their children.
		Death or ill-health of the male head of the household, or of the wife, with the consequent loss of labour unit, leads to the decline in the status of the household and ultimately to poverty.
	www.fao.org /Gender/static/tci/malawi.htm (8638 words)

	Ministry of Tourism
		Government Land will henceforth refer exclusively to land acquired and privately owned by the government to be used for dedicated purposes such as government buildings, schools, hospitals, public infrastructure or made available for private use by individuals and organizations.
		The Government strongly supports gender sensitive access to land and calls for changes in inheritance laws to allow the remaining spouse, children and especially orphans to inherit the property of their parents even when the deceased parent or parents die without a will.
		The Government will install special protections for the land rights of minors and place a legal duty on Chiefs, Headpersons and adult members of the family to protect the land rights of a surviving spouse and children in both matrilineal and patrilineal inheritance areas throughout Malawi.
	www.sdnp.org.mw /~caphill/lands/polrecom.htm (1195 words)

	All Headline News - Madonna's Malawi Son Heads To London - January 1, 2007
		Malawi, Africa (BANG) - Madonna can do a big "jump" since she's finally had her wish of adoption granted and everything seems to be running smoothly now.
		Malawi's Human Rights Consultative Committee had tried to block the adoption plans earlier on Tuesday, claiming the singer had not adhered to the country's strict inter-country adoption laws.
		Last week, Malawi's High Court granted Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, an interim order allowing them to take custody of the child.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7005203339 (321 words)

	Economic Issues No. 33 - Educating Children in Poor Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The government may not have the resources to provide a free education for all, either because there is a large, untaxed shadow economy and the tax base is small, or because tax administration and collection are ineffective.
		The government, with help from the World Bank, pays 80 percent of their salaries (which are only about one-third of what government-employed teachers receive), and the community covers the rest.
		This, however, means involving the government bureaucracy—whose very inadequacies forced many parents to assume the responsibility for their children's schooling in the first place—in the school system.
	www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/issues/issues33/index.htm (4157 words)

	afrol News - Malawi budget "good, but democratic institutions sidelined" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Malawi's government has allocated 46.8%, the bulk of its budget to Agriculture, Health and Education and has largely sidelined institutions tasked with ensuring the state maintains integrity in democratic governance.
		The Constitution and the laws that determine governance are being ignored and we risk being accused of returning to lawlessness so far as democracy is concerned,” a political analyst said after hearing how the budget has been focus on the social sector alone, largely ignoring governance.
		“Government continues to show a lack of seriousness in holding the local poll even though there is sufficient support for them by the German government and other bilateral donors,” the analyst, who preferred to remain anonymous, said.
	www.afrol.com /articles/19974 (936 words)

	UNDP - Malawi: Advisory Note
		Almost all social indicators verify Malawi's poor human development record: life expectancy is 44 years, (likely to decrease due to the impact of AIDS); adult literacy stands at 39% (29% for women); and only 25% of the rural and 33% of the urban population has access to safe water.
		Governance Issues: The extent to which the governance system is democratic, transparent, and enhances accountability and the rule of law will have a bearing on the willingness of individuals, groups and institutions to take initiative, invest, manage and participate in the development of Malawi.
		Malawi has not made much use of TCDC and would benefit from this modality by tapping experiences from the sub-region particularly in the areas of participation development, decentralisation, poverty alleviation and good governance.
	www.sdnp.org.mw /undp/Undpmlw/programme/CCF/ADNOTE.HTM (6644 words)

	Bingu beckons investors, predicts change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Speaking to journalists after her audience with the Malawi leader, Frazer said the US government was happy that Malawi had qualified for the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (Hipc) debt relief initiative.
		Malawi intends to open up access to the Indian Ocean through the existing Shire-Zambezi Waterway which is navigable from an inland port in Malawi to the port of Chinde on the Indian Ocean in Mozambique, a distance of 238 kilometres.
		Malawi made quite an impression at the UN with its set priorities that are to be implemented in the next five years to speed up socio economic growth for the people.
	www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=19018 (1083 words)

	‘African leaders failing to eradicate extreme poverty’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has not returned from the trip as he passed through Australia after the summit.
		Reacting to Raheem’s concerns, government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati said that it is important for Malawi leaders to attend heads-of-government summits because for a long time before multiparty politics Malawi was cocooned.
		Council for Non-governmental Organisations in Malawi (Congoma) is next week expected to host a social forum that will bring together representatives of civil society organisations in southern Africa and people of influence who have been selected to act as ambassadors in the global campaign against poverty.
	www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=18863 (417 words)

	Malawi: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Malawi EFA situation report presented at the mid-decade review earned her a title of a country that is "battling to provide".
		From 1964 to June 1993, Malawi was governed principally by one-party democracy under the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda as Life President The MCP and its leadership attained dictatorial tendencies at the peak of its leadership.
		Malawi National Commission for UNESCO is the national organ that links Government Ministries, the intellectual and civil societies with UNESCO in the latter’s field of competence vis-à-vis education, science, culture and communication.
	www2.unesco.org /wef/countryreports/malawi/rapport_1.html (10188 words)

	USAID: Benin
		The Government is already hard pressed to meet the needs of its people for access to health care and education.
		Government expenditures as a proportion of GDP for health and education currently stand at 2.1% and 3.5% respectively.
		The U.S. Government (USG) continues to assist Benin with the improvement of living standards that are key to the success of Benin's democratic government and economic liberalization, and are consistent with U.S. interests in reducing poverty and promoting growth.
	www.usaid.gov /policy/budget/cbj2006/afr/bj.html (1360 words)

	Malawi dad: My son is Madonna's - CNN.com
		KAZYOZYO VILLAGE, Malawi (CNN) -- The man whose son Madonna is trying to adopt says that he was prodded to "say things I didn't mean" about the controversial case and that he backs the pop superstar's right to adopt his boy.
		Meanwhile, 67 human rights groups have sued the government, arguing that Malawi's laws forbid international adoptions unless the prospective parents have lived in the country for 18 months.
		Madonna with daughter Lourdes, son Rocco and the 13-month-old boy from Malawi she is in the process of adopting.
	cnn.com /2006/WORLD/africa/10/26/koinange.banda/index.html (790 words)

	Regional Corporation-TZ Embassy in USA
		The East African Treaty was signed by the three East African heads of governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, on November 30th, 1999 in Arusha, Tanzania to officially launch the East African Community.
		On signing the current treaty, the heads of the three governments, on behalf of their people, were determined to strengthen their economic, social, cultural, political, technological and other ties for fast balanced and sustainable development.
		He heads a secretariat which is the principal institution of SADC responsible for strategic planning and management of programmes and the implementation of decisions of the Summit and the Council.
	www.tanzaniaembassy-us.org /government/regional.html (587 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Nation \| World / Lives Lost
		Malawi was the worst-hit country for cholera during the first 9 months of last year.
		Malawi, home to 10.7 million people, is a narrow squiggle of land in southern Africa sandwiched among Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique.
		Malawi spends only $7 per person and is entirely dependent on foreign donations for even that amount.
	www.boston.com /globe/nation/packages/lives_lost/malawi.shtml (3760 words)

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		JOHANNESBURG, 31 Jan 2005 (IRIN) - Political divisions in Malawi were set to deepen after a meeting at the weekend to discuss the possible expulsion of the country's president from the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) party for alleged misconduct.
		According to Edge Kanyongolo, a law lecturer at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College, the ongoing power struggle is likely to impact on the government's ability to get legislation passed when parliament reopens.
		Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 65 percent of the population living on less than a dollar a day.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=45309 (814 words)

	Country Profile - Malawi
		Poverty in Malawi is exceptionally high and is part of the nexus of high population growth and environmental degradation leading to low levels of living standards in the country.
		Although consumers in Malawi may seem not to be aware of their environment or ways in which sustainability could be achieved, it is the nexus of poverty, high population growth, environmental degradation and the concomitant lack of alternatives that the Malawian has difficulty in addressing sustainable consumption patterns.
		Malawi is an active member of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl habitat, the Convention on Migrating Species, the IUCN, CITES, the Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought and the Climate Change Convention.
	www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/malwi-cp.htm (12405 words)

	USATODAY.com - 5 suspected terrorists leave Malawi in U.S. custody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Malawi's government has refused to discuss the allegations against the five in detail, suggesting that to do so would endanger state security.
		Malawi has no extradition treaty with the United States, but authorities said the men were "prohibited immigrants" who posed a threat to national security and had to be deported to the unidentified country where they last lived.
		Another was identified as Fahad Ral Bahli, of Saudi Arabia, the director of the Malawi branch of Registered Trustees of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Special Committee on Relief.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-06-25-malawi-terrorists_x.htm (626 words)

	Malawi News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Many make their living on the fringes of the tourism industry BBC News has been to Zambia as part of a special series looking at how Africa is faring one year on after the promises of increased aid made at the...
		Janet Chesney with two girls from Nkhamenya in Malawi Building a school in a remote part of Africa was not how Janet Chesney planned to spend her retirement.
		The Football Association of Malawi continued to reel under an avalanche of problems at the weekend as the country's football leadership came under close scrutiny.
	www.topix.net /world/malawi (709 words)

	Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Opposition Condemned (Human Rights Watch Press release, )
		The government has stated that humanitarian organizations will be banned from distributing food in rural areas, where there is an acute need for assistance, claiming that aid distribution would be used as an excuse to campaign for the opposition party.
		The government has also issued new regulations to allow the confiscation of commercial farmland without the right to appeal the decision to the courts, another measure that undermines the rule of law.
		In August 2001, in the communiqué following the Blantyre summit of SADC, heads of government expressed their concern at the effect of the economic situation in Zimbabwe on the region.
	www.hrw.org /press/2001/11/zimlet1122.htm (1237 words)

	Appeals: Southern Africa Humanitarian Crisis, Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Flash Appeal 2005 for Malawi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a 'smart Appeal', requesting international support for the Government of Malawi's (GoM) leadership in addressing both immediate humanitarian needs, and to allow the Government to take action now to minimise the likelihood of another food-shortage driven humanitarian crisis next year.
		Malawi's impoverished farm households face conditions of pervasive soil nutrient deficiencies and lack access to critical farm inputs.
		The Government is already leading a logistical operation to manage the targeted distribution of the subsidised seed and fertiliser; the same mechanism would be used to ensure that seed and fertiliser are made accessible to poorer farming households.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6FRD84?OpenDocument (1019 words)

	Malawi's Finance Ministry Calls for Accountability of Political Parties
		Malawi’s finance ministry says political parties will not receive regular funding from the government until they give descriptions on how previous funds were spent.
		In Malawi, political parties with more than 10 percent of members of parliament are entitled to government funding.
		However, he says without the audit, the government may never know whether a treasurer of a certain political party is misusing the funds for his or her personal gain.
	www.voanews.com /english/Africa/2006-07-06-voa37.cfm (377 words)

	Preamble
		Local government authorities shall consist of local government officers who shall be elected by free, secret and equal suffrage under the supervision of the Electoral Commission by the registered voters in the area over which that local government authority is to have jurisdiction.
		The offices of local government shall include mayors in cities and municipalities and local councilors in all areas and local government officers shall have such functions, powers and responsibilities as shall be laid down by an Act of Parliament.
		The Malawi Police Force shall be an independent organ of the executive which shall be there to provide for the protection of public safety and the rights of persons in Malawi according to the prescriptions of this Constitution and any other law.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/malawi.html (17971 words)

	The Global Inter-Connection - Ch.5
		The miners, however, believed that the South African government was merely using HIV as an excuse to limit their numbers.
		The Government of Lesotho has become dependent on the easy and steady revenue received through the remittances of the migrant mine workers.
		In Lesotho, women are still governed in most aspects of their lives by customary law, under which they are regarded as perpetual minors, subservient to their parent's authority until they marry, and to their husband's authority thereafter.
	www.undp.org /hiv/publications/book/bkchap05.htm (2312 words)

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		Finally, he thanked the Heads of State and Government for their support to the Egyptian Presidency of COMESA and pledged to give the new Chairman the same level of commitment.
		REAFFIRMED the decision of the First Authority Summit held in Lilongwe, Malawi, in 1994 that Bujumbura, Burundi, is the headquaters of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank and that the office location in Nairobi, Kenya is temporary.
		URGED the governments of India and Pakistan to exercise restraint in the ongoing dispute between them and CALLED on both governments to resolve their disputes peacefully in the spirit of South-South Co-operation.
	www.gov.rw /government/finalcomm.htm (2464 words)

	Malawi's Constitution: Final Draft
		The national territory of the Republic of Malawi shall consist of all the territory, including airspace, waters and islands which comprised the territory of Malawi before the commencement of this Constitution, and shall include any territory lawfully acquired thereafter by adjustment of boundaries or otherwise.
		To govern in accordance with the law of nations and the rule law and actively support the further development thereof in regional and international affairs.
		Provided that the execution of the death sentence imposed by a competent court on a person in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Malawi of which he or she has been convicted shall not be regarded as arbitrary deprivation of his or her right to life.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Govern_Political/mlwi_const.html (17677 words)

	Government of Mauritius
		Apart from Mauritius, the following African countries will be represented by their Heads of State and Heads of Government: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland.
		Cabinet has agreed to the Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations amending the Remuneration Order for messengers on the basis of recommendations made by the NRB.
		Government has taken note of a new scheme to be introduced by the Postal Services for a Postal Code System and the standardisation of the structure of postal addresses in Mauritius (including Rodrigues and Agalega).
	www.gov.mu /portal/site/?content_id=5fd6534d7bff7010VgnVCM100000ca6a12acRCRD (1214 words)

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