News stories by Mabvuto Banda, page 2

LILONGWE, Mar 20 (IPS) - Malawi's first-ever tripartite elections in May 2014 will be a litmus test for President Joyce Banda, who is faced with an opposition majority in parliament, soaring food prices, and a potential treason trial.

LILONGWE, Mar 03 (IPS) - Over two million families who solely depend on Lake Malawi for their livelihoods are anxiously putting their hopes into an upcoming mediation between Malawi and Tanzania intended to put an end to a longstanding ownership dispute.

KARONGA, Malawi, Feb 27 (IPS) - Since he was nine years old, Martin Mhango from Karonga village in northern Malawi has known no other livelihood than fishing. And for the last 33 years he has been fishing freely on Lake Malawi – that is, until last October when he was detained and beaten by Tanzanian security forces.??

LILONGWE, Jan 22 (IPS) - She has taken a personal pay cut, promised reforms, resumed aid flows from Western donors and put her predecessor's private jet up for sale.

LILONGWE, Nov 09 (IPS) - The latest proposals by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to stop farming of the crop could potentially affect about two million livelihoods in Malawi and decide the fate of an entire nation struggling with a sputtering economy.

BLANTYRE, Oct 17 (IPS) - Malawi has opened up negotiations on the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, which have been deadlocked since 2002.

NSANJE, Malawi, Oct 13 (IPS) - For many women in Malawi’s disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding.