Afrol Malawi Index Page: Links to Malawi

The Malawi Index Page

Welcome to our guide to links about Malawi in the www. On the left, an updated list of contents. For those wanting to read some general information, statistics, etc. about Malawi, see our Background Page or go to general information in the link list.

If you are looking for first hand information of high scientific value about Malawi, have a look at our Malawi Searches - the direct access to the databases of several UN-organizations and others. It's right below!

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Malawi INDEX

Media & Government

Malawi Searches

Here a list of sites were you can expect to find specific information about Malawi when you search their database on the word "Malawi":

UNIONS is the United Nations International Organizations Network Search. Here you can search within all the UN-system, including sub-organizations. Expect to find too much documents, reports, articles, etc. about Malawi.

ECA-search - (UN.org.) In the database of the Economic Commission for Africa you might find some country-specific information about development. They also are quite good on gender issues.

FAO-search - (UN-org.) Their database gives you lots of articles and reports about livestock and agriculture in Malawi. Tons of free information!

ILO-search - (UN-org.) Their database might find you some reports about working conditions in Malawi, although there is little African country-specific information.

Infonation is a UN statistics service. Choose country specific data from their huge and updated database. All countries are represented with data from the fields geography, economy, population and social indicators. You can compare data from up to seven countries. Excellent tool!

UNDP-search - (UN-org.) You will find a solid amount of documents and reports about development in Malawi in their database.

UNESCO-search - (UN-org.) Their database contains loads of document related to education, science and culture and related items in Malawi.

WHO-search - (UN-org.) You'll find quit a few documents and reports about health issues in Malawi and the region doing a search in their database.

WTO-search - In the database of the World Trade Organization you'll find quit a few country-specific documents about trade, subsidies, development, etc. in Malawi. Write "Malawi" in the "Document Title" bar.

WoYaa! is a search engine in French and English with links to quite a few sites in French-speaking Africa. Not updated since 1998 (?) and many bad connections.

Yahoo-search - Yahoo helps you find websites related to Malawi, although you'll have no idea what you'll find clicking their links...

Newspapers & Press

Here, you'll find links to Malawian and non-Malawian newspapers and news agencies regularly writing about Malawi, international press in general and other facilitators of news about Malawi.

The Press in Malawi

The Nation is daily updated. Here you'll find some relatively ample features on national politics and the economic situation in the country. English.

Press reporting about Malawi

Africa Confidential is a bisemanal journal on Africa. They let you enter their database on Malawi of past headlines, which has some basic facts and news about Malawi.

afrol Malawi is our own portal on Malawi, which includes our almost daily Malawi News, on of the Internet's most regular news sources on Malawian affairs.

AllAfrica is a commercial network reporting from across the African continent. You can also go directly to their Malawi page, listing the latest news stories.

IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network) is a UN humanitarian information unit, covering news from all Africa. You can also go directly into their Malawi archive, where articles from the last months about Malawi figure.

NewAfrica, Malawi offers interesting information about Malawian infrastructures, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc.

One World News Service is an international news service with a special page for Malawi. In English, but not too regularly updated.

PANA (PanAfrican News Agency) has an expanding pool of correspondents continent wide and partnerships with 48 national news agencies and the largest news-gathering operation in Africa. No country pages, but daily updated news from all over Africa.

Weather.com has a page about the weather in Malawi.

International press

Le Monde, the leading French newspaper, has an ample international coverage (all in French). You can also go directly to their Africa page.

The Africa and Middle East site of the BBC World Services offers updated news, articles and other media services on Africa.

The Financial Times is one of the world's leading business newspapers with a global outlook. You can also go directly to their Middle East and Africa page.

The Independent is an excellent British newspaper with a wide international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page, where the latest articles about the continent are listed.

The International Herald Tribune is a daily newspaper edited in Paris with a focus on news from all over the world. Published with The New York Times & The Washington Post.

The New York Times is one of the most important US newspapers, having a relatively good international coverage, including an Africa page. Most international articles, however, are by AP or Reuters.

The Washington Post is a prestigious US newspaper with an ample international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page or Malawi page, were the last articles from WP are listed.

Times Internet Edition (UK) is the internet edition of the world's oldest daily newspaper. The sister paper, the Sunday Times Internet Edition has its own website. Relatively good international coverage.

News & Discussion Groups

Africa Online Malawi offers services like e-mail, chat, newsgroups. A lot of news too, and only in English.

L'Afrique sur Internet is a website in French about everything what's happening on Internet in francophone Africa. List of links, forums, etc.

NewAfrica has chats, besides offering lots of other services.

Government Offices

National Institutions:
The Malawi Investment Promotion Agency, MIPA
The Malawi Development Corporation, MDC
The Ministry of Tourism, Parks and Wildlife
The National Statistical Office of Malawi hosts a web site that gives you access to all recent official statistics of Malawi. The site also contains a number of statistics and statistical series available on-line, and a guide to statistical sources.
The Reserve Bank of Malawi, RBM

Representations in Foreign Countries:
The Embassy of Malawi in Tokio, Japan, contains information on the country, development and tourism...but only in Japanese...

Transnational Institutions:
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is an organisation of free independent states cooperating. With its 21 member states and population of 385 million it forms a major integrated trading block. Very informative and ample site about the regional economy. There also exists a Malawi Page.

Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a regional, transnational organisation. The working languages of SADC are English, French and Portuguese. Site mostly in English and informative. You can also go directly to their Malawi Country Profile.

About Malawian government, see also Politics and General Information, below.

Other

Cities & Towns

Weather.com has a page about the weather in Malawi, with special information about some cities, like Dowa and Lilongwe.

Companies

The Reserve Bank of Malawi, RBM

Culture

Afromix' web page to Malawian music, groups and artists, with special pages on some Malawian musicians. French and Spanish versions.

The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families and countries.

Economy

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is an organisation of free independent states cooperating. With its 21 member states and population of 385 million it forms a major integrated trading block. Very informative and ample site about the regional economy. There also exists a Malawi Page.

Malawi Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy. They use the IMF as their primary source, which should guarantee for their quality.

Mbendi Consultants' country profile on Malawi concentrates on economical issues. Statistics on communications and information technology, etc.

Planet Business-Malawi offers interesting data of the country's economic situation for importers, exporters, distributors and traders.

The Reserve Bank of Malawi, RBM

In the website of Union-Transport you'll find well structured information about transportat, logistics, brokerage, consulting and documentation in Malawi.

Education

Environment/Nature

NewAfrica-Environment offers interesting information about the environment in Africa, among other subjects, and sometimes news about the environment in Malawi.

General Information/Read about Malawi

The U.S. government has several informative, though subjective, pages about most countries in the world, including Malawi, being regularly updated. Big resources are used to produce and maintain these pages. The CIA. annual Factbook 2000 is probably the best and most updated collection of data on the web.
Another informative site is the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Released by the U.S. State Department. Yet another, the travel warnings to each country of the world, by the same department.

The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families.

The Spanish spoken website of the Basque publishing house Ikuska has pages on all African countries with relatively good statistical data and fuller information on ethnic groups.

Infoplease.com contains a page about Malawi with basic data of the country: history, geography, etc.

NewAfrica Malawi offers interesting information about Malawian infrastructure, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc.

You can order books about Malawi on amazon.com's web page.

Human Rights

The Committee to Protect Journalists has a small, but interesting rapport about the situation of the press in Malawi in 1997.

The most informative site about human rights in Malawi is the annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices Released by the U.S. State Department. Big, elaborated report about the state of human rights in Malawi.

In the annual World Press Freedom Review looks at the the state of the media in 168 countries, like Malawi, documenting press freedom violations. 1999.

Organisations

Politics

The Committee to Protect Journalists has a small, but interesting rapport about the situation of the press in Malawi in 1997.

Elections in Malawi is a document realized by the website Elections around the world.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has country pages for most African countries, describing the refugee situation. Page contains annually updated texts and statistics about refugees living in the country and internally displaced. Go directly to their Malawi page here.

In the annual World Press Freedom Review looks at the the state of the media in 168 countries, like Malawi, documenting press freedom violations. 1999.

Political Parties:
United Democratic Front, UDF

Resource Pages/Links

AdmiNet's Malawi Page offers an ample, well organized list of links.

Africa dot com's Malawi page with a general presentation, basic data and general travel information.

In Afrique francophone, only in French, you'll find links to some sites in francophone countries and francophone Africa in general.

The Index on Africa' Malawi page includes various links. The index is created by The Norwegian Council for Africa, with the aim to strengthen the knowledge of Africa and African affairs. Their main page also has news and there are links to all countries on the continent.

The Spanish spoken website of the Basque publishing house Ikuska has pages on all African countries with relatively good statistical data and links to some Spanish spoken sites.

L'Afrique sur Internet is the website in French about everything what's happening on Internet in francophone Africa. List of links, forums, etc.

WoYaa! is a search engine in French and English with links to some site in French-speaking Africa. Not updated since 1998 and many bad connections.

Sports

Telecom/Internet Services

Network Startup Resource Center Malawi Page contains information about telecommunications, internet services and networking in Malawi.

Travel

Africaguide.com is a website with complete travel information on 51 African countries. In its pages about Malawi you'll find data about region and towns, accommodation, tours and more.

Atevo travel destinations offers practical data about Malawi, besides some travel guides.

Excite Travel has a site-page on Malawi with some useful information and maps.

The INFOHUB travel guide to Malawi has useful travel information, including links on accommodation and transportation.

Lonely Planet, the famous publisher of budget travel guides, has pages on each African country. On their Malawi Page you'll find country background information and facts (overviews) for the traveler (money & costs, when to go, attractions, activities, getting there, getting around, etc.), if there's not a travel warning. Detailed facts only in the guide books.

The Ministry of Tourism, Parks and Wildlife

The U.S. State Department files travel information and warnings for all countries, world wide. Their annually updated pages contain a short description of the country and useful information about safety, crime rate, health services and insurance. Aimed at U.S. citizens, but useful for anybody. Go directly to their Malawi Page.

World Online Travel Agency for airlines, hotels, car hires, adventures in Africa has a page on Malawi. You won't find too much information, but they have detailed maps of the country.

World Travel Guide's entry to Malawi: This is a good, informative and well organised site. Lists all kind of practical information (passport, visa, etc.) and has an introduction to Malawian tourist sites. Guides exist to all countries. You might want to go to their Africa Page. Also a German entry. Recommended.

Women & Gender

The Malawi Media Women's Association, MAMWA, aims at promoting women in the media, carrying out activities in the areas of member training programmes and career guidance for girls in school. Site gives basic introduction.

Women and Law in Southern Africa, WLSA, is an action oriented research organization in seven countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In this page you''ll find an introduction about its activities and programs.

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