Malawi

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Population

Main article: Population of Africa

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Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Mortality

Traffic safety

Economy

GDP

2018: GDP $349 per capita

Inflation

2022: Inflation in November - 25.9%

Foreign trade

2023:46% of wheat supplies come from Russia and Ukraine

Power

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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2019: Electrification

Malawi IT Market

2022: More than 1 start-up

Alcohol market

2018: Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

Consumption

Meat

2023: Pork is the most consumed type of meat

Cereals

2019: Low rice consumption: 7.3 kg per person per year

Vegetables

2018: Vegetable consumption - 88 kg per capita

Automobile traffic

Malawi is a left-hand country.

Education

Percentage of people who can read

Health care

2023: Cholera outbreak

In the first 4 months, hundreds of people died of cholera in Malawi and Mozambique.

2021: Maternity leave

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2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave from 1 to 2.9 months

Part of the population defecates on the street

Crime

2020: Vampire lynching

In the north of the country, in April 2020, according to police, residents lynched eight suspects of vampirism. We are talking about anamapop - "bloodsuckers," only remotely reminiscent of their elegant brothers from Western culture.

In Malawi, anamapop is feared like fire - local residents, led by chiefs and elders, cobble together natural "self-defense units," declare "curfews," patrol the streets with batons and machetes at the ready and severely punish suspects. This hysteria is not the first in the country's recent history. Similar tragedies swept across Malawi in 2002, 2007-2008 and 2017.

Vampires here are considered people who use magic or technology to immobilize victims and then pump blood from them using syringes or foreign medical equipment. It is believed that they subsequently sell the extracted blood, presumably to Satanists and/or whites - Malawians believe that in a tropical climate without local blood, whites quickly bend.

As the Zangaro Today channel noted, one all-African motif is clearly traced here - as in other countries of Eastern and Southern Africa, Malawians consider the "bad" tribesmen to be witches and sorcerers, while vampires are strangers. So in the "bloodsucking pogroms" foreigners often get - in this case, one of the victims was a citizen of Mozambique, in 2017 several tourists were injured, and in 2018 BBC journalists almost died.

But it's not about the obliquity or, as illiterate journalists write, the superstitions of Malawians. In hysteria, the ears of former, but still untreated colonial injuries clearly appear - at one time, British doctors were rather negligent about vaccination and blood sampling from blacks, used dirty and repeatedly used syringes, thereby spreading a lot of dangerous diseases (including AIDS) and causing much more harm than good.

But with the long-awaited departure of whites, the country did not get much better. Therefore, vampirism began to blame not only whites, but also their own - functionaries of the ruling parties and coalitions, businessmen, high-ranking officials and simply rich people. The final bundle is 2002, when the government sold off grain reserves on the eve of the monstrous famine and under pressure from the IMF.

It was then that the authorities began to blame the occult collusion with white people. A successful and largely fair metaphor for the "bloodsucking state," thus, merged with the delights of neoliberism and became a universal response to all the troubles of the country - during the next aggravation of 2017, the pogroms affected mainly wealthy Malawians.

Curiously, wood to melt paranoia is delivered by Protestants. More precisely - Pentecostal churches, literally obsessed with demons and demonomania and infecting their parishioners with paranoia. Rumors of satanic churches and sabbath are constantly circulating in Blantyre and Lilongwe.

All this sticky madness is reproduced from year to year thanks to the monstrous situation in the economy. Malawi is one of the poorest and least prosperous countries in the world. Getting a job without connections is difficult here, getting rich is even more difficult; the budget is 40% dependent on donor assistance from Europe and the United States, and foreign non-profit organizations and all sorts of "foreign agents" there are the only employers for the educated middle class.

Therefore, autochthons cut off from foreign currency and budget feeders ask the question - if there are so many whites in the country, then why is it not getting better? So vampires are such a peculiar, in many ways ugly way for ordinary and illiterate people to talk about the pressing problems of their country. Without sacrifice and mob justice, these gossip never do.

2019

Judges ditch wigs over heatwave

The Malawi Constitutional Court decided to abandon wigs and black robes for judges of all instances due to the heat.

Some regions of the country now have 45 ° C. The local weather service says the extreme heat at this time of year is a result of global warming.

Three people sentenced to death for killing albino

Malawi Court in August 2019 convicted Douglas Mwale, Fontino Folosani and Sophie Jere of the 2015 murder of Priscott Pepuzani. They chopped off his limbs and buried his body in the garden.

This is the second death sentence in the last three months. No executions have been carried out in Malawi since 1994, with death sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

People with albinism, of which there are up to 10,000 people in Malawi, are often victims of violent attacks, as their body parts are used in witchcraft. Since November 2014, more than 160 cases of attacks have been reported in the country, 22 of which resulted in murders.

Prisons

2019: Minimum age for children to be jailed

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

History

2020: Court removes mandate of President Peter Mutharika

Monday 3 February 2020 was a Judgment Day for Malawi. People stuck to TV screens, phones and radios. Schools, businesses and offices closed. Literally all Malawians were waiting for the verdict of the Constitutional Court, which decided the fate of the mandate of President Peter Mutharika, who was re-elected in May 2019. The judges were brought to the courthouse no less in armored army jeeps and accompanied by combat helicopters.

Earlier, businessman Tom Mpinganjira tried to get into the investigation of the court, who tried to torture 135 thousand judges dollars with a request to taxi in favor of Mutharika, but to no avail, and in the end Mpinganjira was arrested. As a result, the court annulled Mutharika's mandate under general applause.

So, democracy won? The historical victory was replicated by the liberal media - CNN, New York Times, The Economist, Washington Post, Financial Times. Everyone was ecstatic. Ugly, impoverished Malawi has grown instantly to an exemplary democracy and an example for the entire continent.

But, in general, no. It was not democracy that won there, but the Constitutional Court, noted in Zangaro Today. That's where how, and in Malawi, judges are influential and almost the main authority in the struggle of political forces, so there is reason to talk about a real savagery, fraught, by the way, with constant interference of the courts in the electoral and political process.

Secondly, the same politicians are running for the new elections scheduled for May 2020, representing, in fact, personalist blocs with a strong ethno-regional soul. Thus, Mutharika's positions are strong in his homeland, in the Southern region, Chakwera - in his homeland in the capital's Central. Such, in general, a district to a district with populism from all gaps and armies of a militant party gopota. Finally, the Malawi elections are a matter of access to resources, which eventually settle in 20% of the party elite and leak to the client through family-family and clan channels.

In short, poverty and democracy are not very compatible things. However, a landmark precedent has been set. In the history of Africa, this happened only once - in Kenya in 2017. So the Malawians were filled with spirit and decided to remove Mutharika, who, according to good African tradition, is in no hurry to leave.

2019: Peter Mutharika, 78, wins presidential election again

In May 2019, 78-year-old Peter Mutharika won the head election states with 38.6% of the vote, only slightly ahead of the main competitors - Lazarus Chakwera (35%) and Saulos Chilima (20%). But almost the battle, the electoral commission received 147 complaints about violations, and both oppositionists accused Mutharika of falsifications and mass fraud. Mutharika confirmed these "complexities" but acknowledged their impact on the outcome of the vote as "uncritical."

The capital flared up instantly, so much so that even the US Ambassador to Malawi Virginia Palmer suffered from tear gas in June 2019, and the army stood up for the protesters and how it could protect them from violent police officers who managed to distinguish themselves by rape. So, sensing hotter, the unfortunate president took refuge in Blantyre, far from the residence, and no longer even showed up in the capital.

1999

"It's a democracy. The system is expensive, but we all have to put up with it. Yes, you also need money to please everyone. Voters do not even have in their thoughts that their deputy may not have money. They are waiting only "yes." You will tell them "no, I don't have it," "no, I can't do it" - they will think, "you are bad," "you are a hypocrite." I see? They are all waiting for someone to come and get them out of poverty. "

These words, spoken in 1999 by a young Malawian politician, can describe any electoral process in Africa at this time.

1994: "President for Life" Hastings Kamuzu Banda peacefully ceded power to democracy

In 1994, the "lifelong president" of Hastings, Kamuzu Banda, peacefully ceded power to demokalase and matipati, in which the outlines of the familiar English democracy and multiparty are vaguely guessed.

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2022: The most popular sport is football

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