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Madonna has been branded a "God" by the Malawi orphanage she adopted son David Banda from.

AN EAGERNESS to learn, an acceptance of domestic chores and no TV or computer games - that is the impression a group of sixth year pupils from St Matthew's Academy in Saltcoats had of their counterparts in Malawi.

Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.

Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.

A GROUP of 5th Year pupils at Blairgowrie High completed a climb up Ben Nevis, braving cold and wet conditions as well as a few sore feet while on a fund-raising event in support of a pupil trip to Malawi next year.

Kampala The United Nations will not sit and watch as Africa turns into a hub for conflicts and criminals, the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on the prevention of genocide, Mr Francis Deng, has said.

Us Weekly : During her trip to Malawi to establish a $15 million school, Madonna plans to meet 3-year-old adopted daughter Mercy 's father.

Karen Allen visited the village of Pitala to discover how they claim to have cut the maternal mortality rate to zero.

IT'S the third poorest country in the world a ' blighted by poverty, AIDS and malaria and with a legal system which still has the death penalty.

The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi's remote northern district of Karonga provides further proof that the area could be the cradle of humankind, a leading German researcher said.

The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi's remote northern district of Karonga provides further proof that the area could be the cradle of humankind, a leading German researcher said.

Ten years ago, struggling musician Esau Mwamwaya said goodbye to his band mates in Malawi and set off to London to find himself a "proper job". This weekend, he returns to Malawi as an international superstar - the headline act at the Lake of Stars music festival - the biggest in the country.

The general elections marathon is now over and political parties have started to take stock of themselves.

During a talk show on KFM on October 10, the moderator of the programme, Mr Daniel Kalinaki, asked whether the figures the President mentioned in his Independence Day speech could be seen on the ground.

The Maccabees played a show at the V Inspired Lake Of Stars festival last night , during which they got locals to dance on stage with them.

Air Malawi CEO Wisdom Mchungula has confessed that the debt-riddled airliner is surviving by the mercy of Malawian public.

The Southern African Development Community has deployed 88 election observers for the Friday general elections.

Activists have spent decades trying to get new laws passed to secure the rights of Ugandan women in the private sphere.

Nationwide Various schools in the country over the weekend followed a Ministry of Education directive barring parents and guardians from visiting students in the boarding section.

It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country's busiest border posts.

Military forces from five Eastern Africa countries and U.S. Africa Command are due to hold a joint military training exercise in Uganda next week, a regional bloc said on Thursday.

A mass card distribution company knowingly used on cards the name of a priest who had been suspended by his bishop, the High Court heard today Evidence was being heard on the second day of a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Charities Acts which outlaws the sale of mass cards except through an arrangement with the Catholic Church.

The "climate witnesses" - all poor farmers - told a special tribunal on climate change in Cape Town, South Africa, on 5 October: "We don't want any handouts from the West." Instead, they needed strategies and policies to help them overcome the effects of climate change.

African farmers said on Monday floods and droughts expected to worsen with climate change have already brought poor harvests, and women workers are turning to prostitution and falling victim to HIV/AIDS. Testifying at the first pan-African climate hearings, the farmers' stories will be relayed at December's climate talks in Copenhagen, where ...

Kampala Kampala Central MP Erias Lukwago and Buganda Deputy Information Minister Medard Segona were yesterday quizzed at CID headquarters and later charged with inciting violence and sedition respectively at Buganda Road Court.

He was a revolutionary, a soldier's soldier. Anointed by OR Tambo as a future leader of South Africa, Chris Hani's legend is as powerful as ever.