The Program Manager will coordinate CRS Health/AIDS programs/projects, assist counterparts in planning, designing, implementing, monitoring and reporting of Health and HIV/AIDS projects, assist counterparts in establishing systems for implementation and monitoring of activities.

Malawi's ruling party has fired the outspoken chairperson of a parliamentary committee which was investigating a maize scandal blamed for worsening severe food shortages here, an official said on Wednedsay.

President Bakili Muluzi has lashed out at the "Chronicle" and "Daily Times" newspapers for what he termed "irresponsible journalism." Speaking at a rally in Balaka district (southern Malawi) on 25 September 2002, Muluzi described the "Daily Times" as a "naughty paper" whose agenda was questionable.

President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi has lashed out at European countries who have called for broad national consultation before the government introduces a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. "This country is not controlled by donors. Never! You must understand that I am a president of this country. Yes, we are poor. But we want to be poor with our heads up, not with our heads down. And nobody, as long as I'm a president, nobody will control me," Muluzi told a rally.

An opposition leader has been arrested in Malawi, accused of inciting people to demonstrate against President Bakili Muluzi's alleged bid for a third term.

It is widely assumed that women are not necessarily bread winners and are therefore not entitled to inherit property. This has created widespread confrontations. Human rights and non-governmental organisations are now crusading especially for the protection of widows in property rights disputes.

Malawi's four major donors have asked that the government of President Bakili Muluzi allow wider consultation before going to parliament with another bill aimed at allowing him to run for a third term.

Malawi is reinforcing its image as the "warm heart of Africa" by forming networks of volunteers who provide home-based care (HBC) to the country's HIV/AIDS sufferers. The groups help the sick with bathing and going to the toilet. They fetch water for them and help with some housework and disseminate HIV/AIDS awareness into the communities.

With pupils limping to school on empty stomachs and dressed in tatters, Malawi may not realise her ambition to increase the number of citizens who are able to read and write. Experts have always pointed at poverty as the main reason for the escalating rate of school drop outs. Many of the children are absorbed in the child labour market to help their poor families earn additional incomes to finance basic requirements.

Struggling with one of the highest child-mortality rates in the world, Malawi has launched an unconventional care programme aimed at saving the lives of newborn babies. Malawi has a childhood mortality rate of 104 deaths for every 1,000 live births. The Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) programme intends to halve that rate.

Malawi has lost $40-million in the corrupt sale of maize, a staple food in a country where more than three million face starvation, a top government official says. The figure, supplied by an official from the country's national audit office who asked not to be named, follows last month's revelation that 160 000 tons of the country's strategic grain reserves had been mismanaged.

On 21 August 2002, Bright Sonani, a senior reporter for the "Malawi News", was assaulted by three unidentified men who accused him of writing stories that were critical of the government.

Political violence is on the rise in Malawi as political divisions deepen ahead of elections in 2004, a new report by the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has warned.

RSF has called for an investigation into the death of freelance journalist Don Kulapani, who was killed on 8 August during a hold-up at a bar in the capital, Lilongwe.

A Resource Center Manager is needed to set-up and run the Learning Support Office (LSO)of the Malawi Resource Centre for six months from September.

A major report published this week by the International Bar Association (IBA) exposes how threats to freedom and justice have triggered off a chain reaction putting millions of people in Malawi under threat of famine.

Although some progress was reported at the international AIDS conference held last month, one country's efforts to secure help in tackling its AIDS epidemic indicates the gulf between needs and the resources available to meet them. After repeated interactions with donor organizations and the newly established Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Malawi, a country in which 16 percent of the adult population is infected with HIV, was forced to whittle down an ambitious plan to one that will barely make a dent in its problems.

President Bakili Muluzi on Wednesday sacked his Minister Responsible for Poverty Alleviation, Leonard Mangulama, following revelations of his involvement in the sale of strategic grain reserves ahead of a massive food shortage.

A Resource Centre Manager is needed to set-up and run the LSO Malawi Resource Centre for six months from September.

IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler and World Bank President James Wolfensohn have expressed their "grave concern" about the famine affecting 14 African nations in a joint letter addressed to some 24 donor countries, calling on donors to provide extra food and financial aid. Yet in contradiction to this positive statement, the IMF's tough stance on economic policy has delayed the delivery of the bulk of its $55 million support package for Malawi, citing concerns over the country's overspend, the Jubilee Debt Campaign points out.