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Carlsberg sells Malawi brewery stake
2016-08-10 12:18:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Carlsberg has agreed to divest its 59% share of brewing and bottling facility Carlsberg Malawi to Castel Group.
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With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to "earth bag" houses
2016-07-06 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At the local brick kiln, a truck laden with logs pulls up and unloads. Soon smoke is billowing, as a new set of bricks bakes inside. Malawi's construction industry relies heavily on bricks - and the wood needed to make them is a major reason the country's indigenous forests are fast disappearing. But an unusual home construction technique - using dirt or sand packed into plastic sacks and stacked - is now being tried out in Rumphi, in the north of the country, as a way to cut back on bricks...
Malawi to relocate 500 elephants to new home
2016-06-07 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AJE News: Conservationists in Malawi will next month attempt the largest-ever relocation of elephants in Africa. They will move 500 elephants from two overcrowded wildlife reserves in the country's south to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, a distance of more than 300km. The relocation of the herd by African Parks, a non-profit conservation organisation, is an effort to halt a steep decline in elephant numbers, the result of ivory poaching and loss of habitat. Over the past 20 years, Malawi's elephant...
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Beta TV wins super league broadcasting rights in Malawi
2016-06-01 11:48:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Malawi's Beta Television Station has been awarded exclusive broadcasting rights of Super League of Malawi games, Malawi24 reported. The Super league of Malawi (Sulom) General Secretary, Williams Banda, said the station had bid for the rights for a total sum of MWK 266 million per season. The rights to Beta TV will run for the period of 3 years from 2016 to 2018 season.
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Malawi says 8 million people need food relief due to drought
2016-05-25 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than half of Malawi's population is in need of food aid after an El Nino-induced drought decimated crops, the minister of agriculture said on Wednesday. The drought has ravaged much of southern Africa, but Malawi has been the worst-hit country with more almost half of its population of about 15 million affected. "The results of this rapid assessment showed that close to 8.4 million people will need food because they have partially or completely lost their crops through El Nino induced...