President Joyce Banda. Photo: Government of Malawi
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Last updated: 26/04/2012 //
Afrika har fått ein ny kvinneleg president. Joyce Banda har bakgrunn som aktivist og forretningskvinne. Ho skapar håp i Malawi, skriv Noregs ambassadør Asbjørn Eidhammer.
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Last updated: 17/04/2012 //
Dei fleste har fått med seg dei historiske hendingane dei siste 10-12 dagane i Malawi. Det er sjeldan det politiske bildet i eit land kan endre seg så kraftig på så kort tid som det gjorde i Malawi frå skjertorsdag føremiddag til påskeaftan 2012.
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Sist oppdatert: 03/04/2012 //
Vi har i det siste mottatt rapporter om noen alvorlige ran og overfall i Lilongwe. I tillegg har det politiske spenningsnivået gitt seg utslag i spontane protester og demonstrasjoner. Vi anbefaler derfor alle å være påpasselige med egen sikkerhet og å ta vanlige, fornuftige forhåndsregler. Det er lurt å ha malawiske nødnumre lagret på mobilen. En liste over disse finner ved å klikke på denne...
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Last updated: 15/02/2012 //
On Monday the 13th of February, the Norwegian Deputy Head of Mission, Jan Håkon Olsson, participated in a field visit at Nkhwazi Health Centre in Mchinji. The visit included a symbolic handover of essential drugs from the development partners to the Minister of Health, Hon. Dr Jean Kalilani.
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Last updated: 14/12/2011 //
In November United Nations presented the Human Development Report for 2011 in Lilongwe. How did Malawi perform compared to its neighbours?
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Last updated: 11/04/2012 //
Vedlagt følgjer teksten i eit kondolansebrev som vart oversendt Malawis nye president på vegne av den norske regjeringa.
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Last updated: 02/03/2012 //
On Friday 24th of February representatives from the Norwegian Embassy visited Kachere juvenile prison in Lilongwe with company from UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in New York. The purpose of the visit was for the UN to see a prison school project currently underway. DPKO is interested in the project because they want to duplicate it in post conflict countries.
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Last updated: 15/02/2012 //
On Wednesday the 8th of February the Norwegian Ambassador participated in NASFAM’s (the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi) tree planting programme for the 2011/2012 growing season. It is the ninth year that NASFAM runs a tree planting programme.
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Last updated: 06/12/2011 //
The Norwegian Embassy in Lilongwe is one out of six Norwegian pilot Embassies on gender. This means that the Embassy gets financial support from Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) to strengthen its work on gender. This year the support was used to train its employees on gender issues. Thus, for two days local and diplomatic staff at the Embassy participated at a gender trainin...
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Last updated: 01/12/2011
“This is a day of hope” Malawi’s Finance Minister, Dr. Lipenga, announced Wednesday last week. The reason for hope relates to the newly signed agreements between the Malawian government and the British, the Irish and the Norwegian governments on financial support to secure the food harvest the next years.
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Last updated: 01/12/2011
What happens when Norway unites with CELA (Centre for Legal Assistance) to fight for gender equality in the Malawian society?
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Last updated: 01/12/2011
Rural girls are among the most excluded groups in Malawi and a large number of adolescent girls are faced with gender discrimination and inequality. This is why Norway decided to sign a Joint UN Programme on Adolescent Girls with UNFPA in collaboration with UNICEF and WHO on Friday the 25th of November 2011.
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Last updated: 25/11/2011
Norway’s initiative has resulted in the unanimous adoption of a resolution in the UN General Assembly on strengthening the protection of human rights defenders and the right of peaceful protest. “This UN resolution throws into sharp relief the use of force against protesters that we are seeing in a number of countries. It strengthens our hand when we seek to make governments accountable for...
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