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Aug 9th, 2004 - 06:38:52 |
Patrick Marcello
I am just curious as to what tangible projects have we completed since the inception of the YES Malawi. How are the youths being utilised? Have we achieved any of the objectives we set out to achieve? At what stage are we, other than attending functions, and engaging in photo ops?
Aug 9th, 2004 - 06:27:44 |
Kondwani
YES Malawi wishes to send its sincere condolences to the families and freinds of 27 young people who died in a Car accident in the cenral district of Dedza. Amongst them were a youth Choir from Kawale. Part of the details of the accident follows:
Blantyre, Malawi - At least 27 died on Saturday and several others were
injured after a truck belonging to a former Malawian transport minister
collided head-on with another vehicle, police and medical officials said.
The driver of former transport minister Clement Stambuli's truck lost
control of the vehicle in the mountainous Dedza region about 80 kilometres
outside the capital Lilongwe, Police spokesperson Kelvin Maigwa said.
"The truck swerved to the wrong side of the road and collided with the
speeding oncoming truck," Maigwa said.
The truck was carrying an unknown number of people on their way to a
cemetery for the laying of a tombstone. The second truck was transporting
goods to the capital.
Witnesses said people were thrown from the vehicles while others were
crushed by the wreckage.
"There was chaos as the injured, some wailing, some unconscious were wheeled
in," Dedza District Hospital deputy health officer George Manjolo said. "Our
morgue could not cope with the dead."
Manjolo said 23 people were declared dead on arrival. Four others died in
hospital.
President Bingu wa Mutharika expressed shock at the accident and said he
would visit survivors.
Aug 9th, 2004 - 06:19:37 |
Kondwani
News report on the role of IMF in Africa.
The Monitor (Kampala)
August 8, 2004
Badru D. Mulumba
Entebbe
Presidents Yoweri Museveni, Mwai Kibaki (Kenya) and Bingu wa'Mutharika
(Malawi) ganged up Friday to suggest to the head of the International
Monetary Fund that his organisation has been dishonest by refusing to take
blame for failures.
They protested IMF inflexibility - and told IMF managing director Mr Rodrigo
de Rato that IMF staff should behave 'responsibly' while making statements
about developing countries.
The presidents, joined by ministers from Rwanda and Burundi, passed the buck
during a regional IMF Summit at Botanical Beach Hotel. "Given the impact of
IMF country assessment on the views of markets and the development partners,
it's critical that all Fund staff should be careful and responsible in the
way they pronounce themselves on country performance," they said. "Where
there are differences of view, the IMF should not seek to isolate countries
from development partners and investors," they said. It was not clear what
triggered this protest. But reports last year indicated that Uganda
protested remarks by the out gone IMF Resident Representative, Mr Walter
Mahler after he publicly criticised its expenditures.
And in Kenya, the government is tussling it out with donors after the
British High Commissioner there accused the government of stealing public
funds and "vomiting on donors' shoes".
The presidents spoke to journalists immediately after the regional summit.
But details of their closed day meetings came to light in a joint
communiqué. Finance minister Gerald Sendaula read it out in the presence of
the visiting head of the IMF.
"We also noted that when programmes fail or do not work out as expected,
countries have, in the past, taken all the blame," they said.
"However, the IMF, of course, also makes mistakes. We welcome moves to
greater openness about such mistakes... Recognition that neither side is
infallible will help us design stronger programmes."
The presidents also suggested they had told De Rato that they were tired of
being dictated upon. "We raised the issue of African countries participating
more in the design of economic programmes that are supported by the IMF,"
they said.
The presidents also requested IMF to help them with their domestic debts.
De Rato jetted into the country on August 5 and departed yesterday. He was
due to hold talks with Mr Kibaki who led a 29-man delegation to the summit.
de Rato told journalists that he came to Uganda at the invitation of Mr
Museveni.
Sunday Monitor also learnt that it was Museveni's idea that they have a
regional summit with other presidents. In remarks to the presidents during
the closed summit, de Rato said: "poverty remains widespread, conflict is
holding back development, and the HIV/Aids pandemic is taking a devastating
social toll with serious economic repercussions."
Aug 6th, 2004 - 10:26:36 |
Kondwani
More on the education debate from Nyasanet:
here you go again, sister. wonderful idea. the success of any nation lies in
the education of its people. encouraging young ones to leave school and
start a business is not a clever idea neither can it give any fruits to the
country as a whole.
german
Aug 6th, 2004 - 09:32:49 |
Kondwani
This was the first response given to the first article on education debate:
"I find it sad that people who talk freedom turn so easily to tyranny when
it suits their programmes. Compulsory schooling is no different from
enslaved child labour - except that it's politically acceptable to liberals.
What hypocrisy!"
I could not be more mortified that at this stage of human development, we
can even think that education is a matter of choice. If you think that
compulsory education is enforced child labour", let's use the old cliche,
"try ignorance!"
Compulsory education is not enslaved child labour, nor should it be a luxury
of the few who can afford. Most of all compulsory education is not a notion
set up by 'hypocitical liberals', rather it is a necessary tool for
civilization and general human development.
Lastly, I dare say sir, that had you not yourself gone through some enslaved
child labour, we may not have been having this debate. The fact the we we
have free primary, but do not have compulsory education in Malawi, has
brewed problems one of which is that parents today lack the moral suassion
to make their children go to school.
I say we campagin to get our Parliament to move a motion to make education
compulsory for Malawians up to at least 15 years minimum. I still desire for
our country to be a nation of educated and not ignorant, unschooled people.
Janet Karim
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