Tag Archives: Malawi
Connecting to the Internet from Blantyre
Just got back from visiting family in beautiful Blantyre. It’s rainy season now and there are regular rain showers every other day. Everything is green and lush. The sun is hot. The air is moist. And the shopping centres and outdoor markets of Blantyre are busy with holiday shopping. And except for a couple of [...]
Malawi Twitterers
As Malawi celebrates independence day tomorrow, here is a list of Malawi twitterers you might like to follow:
Vincent Kumwenda – currently at Muloza border, Mulanje; topics include Malawi news, world news, interesting Malawi web pages, and soccer. He also writes a blog.
Fred Bvalani – in Blantyre; tweets about mobile applications and phones, Oracle training [...]
Posted in General, Malawi, blogger, blogging Also tagged africa, Blantyre, lilongwe, malawi tweeple, malawi tweets, malawi twitterati, malawi twitterers, microblogging, twitter 3 Comments
OpenStreetMap of Blantyre
Stumbled across this tweet about Malawi on OpenStreetMap.org.
See for example the streets of Blantyre:
Malawi Cell Phone Numbers Change on April 1
Malawi cell phone numbers have changed:
Zain:
Add 099 and the remaining 7 digits.
TNM:
Add 088 and the remaining 7 digits.
Calling Malawi from Switzerland
Online bookmark:
Check Teltarif.ch for the cheapest telephone rate to Malawi.
Yesterday I couldn’t remember the name of the cheapest Swiss “callthrough” provider… and googling for something like “Billiger telefonieren Malawi” just lists tonnes of German “call-by-call” sites.
BTW, Swisscom costs CHF 1.40 per minute.
Posted in General, Malawi Also tagged africa, billiger telefonieren, swiss, telephone rates, von der schweiz nach malawi 1 Comment
How to Resize Photos
My family’s email account in Blantyre was blocked twice in the past week, due to well-meaning but over-sized Christmas and New Year email greetings. Attachments with over 2 MBs. The family is still on a phone line with a very slow connection rate. And downloading emails with a large attachment takes forever and a day. [...]
Posted in General, Malawi, Photos, africa, blogger, blogging, flickr Also tagged change size, flickr, gimp, irfanview, jpeg, ms paint, paint, picasa, resize photos, slow internet connection 3 Comments
Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda
Just a quick note to point to an interesting interview with an official of MTN Uganda at:
Appfrica: Interview With MTN’s Erik van Veen – Part 1
These points caught my eye:
(…) revenues per user, are very low in Africa by international standards, and require a low cost operating model if the Operator is to be profitable. [...]
Mulanje
I just surfed through lots of cool new photos in the Malawi group on Flickr.
Including these photos of Mulanje mountain by Lisa de Vreede:
Posted in Malawi, Photos, africa, blogger, flickr, wordpress Also tagged flickr group, photography, travel 2 Comments
Hong Kong Restaurant in Blantyre, Malawi
Chinese restaurant in downtown Blantyre in Malawi.
(BTW, this is a Chiperoni.ch Internet Marketing experiment….
If you read this blog post and then end up going to eat at this BT restaurant, please tell the owners where you first heard about it…)
Wikipedia in Tumbuka
stumbled across this:
Wikipedia in Chitumbuka
Back from Blantyre
I spent a couple of sunny, winter days in Malawi’s biggest city, visiting family and meeting friends.
I’ve started uploading some of my snapshots to Flickr. More to come as I sift thru the GBs of data.
Travel was uneventful, except for the fact that my luggage took 6 days to arrive in Blantyre. It [...]
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Radio Stations in Malawi
Bennett has listed an overview of Malawi radio stations:
MBC Radio 1 (state broadcaster)
MBC Radio 2 FM (state broadcaster)
Capital FM
Power 101 FM (Provides live internet streaming)
Radio Maria Malawi (Provides 24 hr live internet streaming from Malawi. Currently my fave, because it brings me closer home when I am outside Malawi.)
Star FM
Zodiak Radio Station
Trans-World Radio Malawi
CFC Radio [...]
CNN Report on Malawi Doctor Shortage
There’s a CNN TV report on the shortage of qualified medical personnel in Malawi. I zapped into it yesterday. It shows the dire situation at Mulanje District Hospital and in a rural dispensary. They interviewed a volunteer doctor from Uganda, a midwife who works in rural villages, a couple of Malawian doctors that are working [...]
Posted in Malawi, africa Also tagged brain drain, cnn tv report, doctor poaching, doctor shortage 3 Comments
Director of The Fairtrade Foundation recommends Satemwa
and Lujeri Tea Estates in an interview with guardian.co.uk:
My favourite hotels are…
Locally run guesthouses. I stay in many around the world, but recently I was in the tea estates of Malawi and stayed at the Satemwa Guesthouse in Thyolo (00 265 1473 256; satemwa.com) and Lujeri Lodge (00 265 8 854 894). It was so [...]
Website: review everything malawi
I noticed a new website on Malawi: http://malawiweb.net/
Posted in General, Malawi Also tagged Blantyre, cape maclear, lake malawi, lilongwe, reviews, website 1 Comment
Zomba Plateau
browsing aimlessly thru my Malawi photos…
Malawi runners at Austin Marathon
While googling “porters race” I found this:
Rogue Training Systems, a health and fitness company in Austin, Texas, is giving Malawian runners the chance to run Austin’s AT&T Marathon in February 2008.
Floods in Mocambique and Malawi
Heavy rains are causing the Zambezi and the Shire to flood.
Here’s a BBC report:
Heavy floods have also destroyed homes and crops, displacing thousands of people in southern and central Malawi.
The Malawian government is warning people to relocate from flood-prone areas, but many have been reluctant to leave their farms.
Light, misty drizzle
Google Book Search on chiperoni:
The climate is tropical and monsoonal with a wet season (November to May) and a dry season (May to November). The dry season is mostly cool but hot and humid prior to the first rain. Maritime influences ameliorate the dry season in the Shire Highlands with periods of light, misty drizzle, [...]
IHT: The 53 places to go in 2008
The International Herald Tribune writes:
29. MALAWI
Blame Madonna. Safarigoers tended to overlook Malawi, but that has changed since she began her effort to adopt a 1-year-old boy from this tiny African country that lies within the Great Rift Valley. Next July, the luxury lodge Pumulani (www.pumulani.com) is set to open 10 villas on spectacular Lake Malawi, [...]
The van der Post trail
Found this interesting read at Times Online:
A voyage round my father
A daughter follows her father’s footsteps to Mount Mulanje.
Page three of the article includes travel tips.
Malawi is Africa as it once was, so there are no vast luxurious holiday compounds and few sumptuous lodges to insulate you from the masses.
Here are a couple of links [...]
in the summertime
I tried to capture today’s awesomely red fireball of a sunset in Basel. My cameraphone snapshot doesn’t quite do it justice. But heh, that’s one moment in time captured and stored and uploaded and tagged and online.
Stumbled across this blog entry:
We googled you!
And it definitely raises an important discussion point… what will recruiting [...]
Technology Leapfrogs