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Victims of Malawi’s bloody protest speak

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Kara Stevenson March 23, 2012
Mphatso Banda's shows off the bullet wound he got at a protest in Lumbadzi, Malawi. Photo by Kara Stevenson.

July 21, 2011 was an unruly day in Lumbadzi, Malawi – a violent protest paraded through the streets. While some citizens were using the protest to loot shops and pelt stones at police officers, many innocent people were injured. “I started to run, but I felt numbness in my left foot. I realized that there [...]

Tagged as: demonstrations, malawi, protest, victims, violence

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The children of Zion Bata

In Articles, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships, Uncategorized,
by Desiree Buitenbos March 20, 2012

The children of Kachitsa Village, a small village of 1,000 in the northern outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi, are adamant about their religious beliefs. Mention God and their shy, soft-spoken demeanor converts to self-assurance and poise. These children are members of a church called Zion Bata which preaches that prayer is the only effective method for [...]

Tagged as: Childrens' Rights, religious freedom

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Radio waves inspire change in Malawi

In Articles, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Desiree Buitenbos March 20, 2012

Violet Banda is not your average 21-year-old. A poised, confident and outspoken child rights activist, Banda personifies the power of radio in Malawi. Born to a family of five children, Banda is the only female and the only child to have contracted HIV from her mother who succumbed to AIDS when Banda was just three [...]

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Linking farmers to markets one SMS at a time

In Educational Internships, IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by Paula Millar March 15, 2012

For smallholder farmers across Malawi, crop production is merely half of the battle. The real challenge comes postharvest, when the race begins to access markets and secure a profit before a yield spoils. With no information, determining potential points of sale, buyers and the going rate is a game of chance. In the past, such [...]

Tagged as: Agriculture, Esoko, jhr, malawi, mobile technology, smallholder farmers, SMS, SMS text messaging, technology, USAID

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The road to abolishing Malawi’s death row

In Educational Internships, IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by nlex March 9, 2012

Malawi’s Legal Aid volunteers sift through a pile of files of those on death row. They are doing everything they can to abolish the death penalty in the country and lessen existing prisoners’ sentences. At least 29 men currently sit on death row in Malawi; however, no one has been executed in the country since [...]

Tagged as: abolish, constitution, death penalty, death row, lawyers, legal aid, malawi, Supreme Court

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In Malawi when ‘Life’ gets tough, it gets banned

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Karissa Gall March 9, 2012

Saturday night in Blantyre and the drinks are flowing at Mustang Sally’s, a fluorescent bar with a swimming pool centerpiece frequented by ex-pats and a new generation of young Malawians who have money.  The laptop DJ plays LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” for the eighth time of the night. No longer under the strict censuring control [...]

Tagged as: art, censorship, human rights, Lucius Banda, malawi, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, Malawi Censorship Board, music, politics, protest, Radio

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Collateral damage: Police report policy delays treatment for accident victims in Malawian emergency rooms

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Karissa Gall March 4, 2012

You’ve been in an accident in Malawi – where do you go?  If you said the emergency department you could be wrong. A few months ago my editor at Blantyre Newspapers Limited’s Sunday Times made this “mistake”, taking a small boy who had been in a traffic accident to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) for emergency [...]

Tagged as: Blantyre, Health, Hospital, human rights, malawi, Malawi Police Service, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

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Miss Real African beauty pageant: A women empowerment controversy

In IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by Josiane_Blanc February 25, 2012

“A real African woman has to be a big, full figured, confident and responsible woman.” This is what pageant coordinator Florence Banda’s responded with when asked why she felt there is a need for a beauty contest dedicated to Malawian plus size women. According to Mrs. Banda, full figured women have been on the sideline [...]

Tagged as: beauty pageant, Blantyre, Tradition, women empowerment, women rights

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Hospital overcrowding a ‘time bomb’ in Ghana

In Malawi,
by Jonathan Migneault February 23, 2012

“This was a time bomb waiting to happen.” That’s what Dr. Philip Amoo had to say after three children died following a bacteria outbreak at Accra’s Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Amoo is the head of Korle Bu’s public health unit and said the “time bomb” was due to overcrowding at Ghana’s largest hospital. Christiana Akyfo, [...]

Tagged as: bacteria, children, hospitals

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Teachers in over crowded schools on strike for unpaid ‘double-shift’ wages

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi, Media Internships,
by Kara Stevenson February 13, 2012

LILONGWE, Malawi – Primary schools in Lilongwe are over their capacity. There are not enough classrooms to seat 8,000 or more students per school, and students are forced to sit outside. In fact, schools in the area lack funding and government support. It an attempt to accommodate all students with an education while optimizing the [...]

Tagged as: double shift, lilongwe, malawi, primary schools, strike, students, teachers

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