* Malawi has awarded exploration license to Surestream

* Tanzania says any find could escalate the dispute

(Reuters) – Tanzania has asked Malawi to stop oil and gas exploration activities in Lake Malawi until a border dispute between the two countries involving the lake is resolved, a Tanzanian official said on Monday.

Last October, Malawi said it had awarded oil exploration licences to UK-based Surestream Petroleum to search for oil in Lake Malawi, which is also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania.

“Malawi claims that the whole lake belongs to the country according to colonial boundaries …… ( Read on! )

* Malawi has awarded exploration license to Surestream

* Tanzania says any find could escalate the dispute

(Reuters) – Tanzania has asked Malawi to stop oil and gas exploration activities in Lake Malawi until a border dispute between the two countries involving the lake is resolved, a Tanzanian official said on Monday.

Last October, Malawi said it had awarded oil exploration licences to UK-based Surestream Petroleum to search for oil in Lake Malawi, which is also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania.

“Malawi claims that the whole lake belongs to the country according to colonial boundaries …… ( Read on! )

The Anti-Corruption Bureau can’t  prove that Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe and two senior officers got kickbacks for insisting that a Saudi Arabian firm gets the first fertilizer subsidy contract in 2005.

But what can be proved for sure is that their decision cost the country US$6.8 million dollars.

Gondwe, the most popular and influential minister in the Mutharika administration, reportedly ignored technical advise that the Saudis had no capacity to handle the deal. A recommendation was made that South Africa was the best bet for Malawi.

This  was the first fertilizer subsidy deal for… ( Read on! )

She is rich and famous that’s why she managed to adopt two children from Malawi even when the country’s laws  required prospective parents to live in the country for 18 to 24 months while child welfare authorities assess their suitability. But with Madonna, this was not an issue.

She pledged to feed orphans through Consol Homes [a network orphan centers], but after a while, that too has been abandoned putting the lives of many poor children at risk.

She promised to build a $15 million school for girls, an academy modeled on Oprah Winfrey’s school in South Africa,  but she changed her… ( Read on! )

>She is rich and famous that’s why she managed to adopt two children from Malawi even when the country’s laws  required prospective parents to live in the country for 18 to 24 months while child welfare authorities assess their suitability. But with Madonna, this was not an issue.

She pledged to feed orphans through Consol Homes [a network orphan centers], but after a while, that too has been abandoned putting the lives of many poor children at risk.

She promised to build a $15 million school for girls, an academy modeled on Oprah Winfrey’s school in South Africa,  but she changed… ( Read on! )