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ReliefWeb, a leading source of time-critical humanitarian information on global crises and disasters. ReliefWeb is a 24/7 service that provides the latest reports, maps, infographics, and videos from trusted sources, as well as jobs and training programs for humanitarians. [12] (1996)
ReliefWeb was founded in October 1996 and is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The project began under the US Department of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, which had noticed during the Rwanda crisis how poorly critical operational information was shared between NGOs, UN Agencies and Governments.
The National Economic Empowerment Fund Limited (NEEF), [1] formerly [2] [3] Malawi Enterprise Development Fund (MEDF) [4] [5] is a Malawian government owned Microfinance Institution with intention to economically empower people [6] in rural and urban areas, [7] (particularly women, girls and people with disabilities), by providing quality, affordable and sustainable microfinance services for ...
Malawi24 is a United Nations Global Compact member. It is affiliated with Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - Malawi Chapter, a media watch-dog organisation across Southern Africa. It is currently one of the Malawi news sources aggregated by allafrica.com [2] and Google news [3]
Malawi is a landlocked country in southern Africa. Malawi is one of the world's undeveloped countries and is ranked 170 out of 187 countries according to the 2010 Human Development Index. [1] It has about 16 million people, 53% of whom live under the national poverty line and 90% of whom live on less than $2 per day. [2]
The Malawi News Agency (MANA) is the largest news network in Malawi. It was established in 1966 to provide and produce news content to the country from the government. It also gathers news from around the country. Its online news content launched in 2012. [8] [9] The oldest privately owned newspaper in the nation is The Daily Times.
Around 85% of the population live in rural areas. The economy is based on agriculture, and 41% of GDP and 90% of export revenues come from this. In 2006, in response to disastrously low agricultural harvests, Malawi, through an initiative by the late President Bingu Mutharika , an economist by profession, began a program of fertilizer subsidies ...
Habitat for Humanity estimated in 2016 that 1.6 billion people around the world live in "inadequate shelter". [2] Different countries often use different definitions of homelessness. It can be defined by living in a shelter, being in a transitional phase of housing and living in a place not fit for human habitation.