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Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care

LGBTQ

Around 3.5% of Malawi’s nearly 21 million people who identify as LGBTQ face discrimination when seeking health care, even though the country’s constitution guarantees the right to health for all citizens.

‘We are struggling’: Malawi’s farmers hit hard by fertilizer prices

Business, Economics and Jobs
A collage of video screenshots that feature Africans exploited for profit in a growing trend known as "blessings videos."

A new documentary uncovers the story behind China’s racist ‘blessings video’ trend

Arts, Culture & Media
Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere rest on the ground as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus

Polish border police push back migrants at Belarus border

Top of The World
A man in Malawi wearing a blue shirt explains a document to an elderly woman wearing a white head wrap outside

Malawians vote for president (again) amid pandemic 

Elections
Women sit on the ground wearing colorful head wraps waiting for aid.

A month after Cyclone Idai, governments struggle to secure crucial recovery funds

Climate Change

Last month, Cyclone Idai devastated southeastern African nations of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The World Bank has estimated more than $2 billion will be needed for recovery. Mozambique’s $337 million humanitarian response plan, largely made up of an appeal for $281 million after the cyclone hit, was only 23% funded as of April 15, 2019.

A woman is shown in ankle deep water walks down a flooded road with heavily damaged buildings in the background.

Mozambique starts three days of mourning after cyclone kills hundreds

Environment

Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after a powerful cyclone and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.

A still photo taken from drone footage above a settlement on the edge of Beira, Mozambique showing dozens of buildings flooded.

Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1,000

Environment

The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000 putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures.

360 Staff Pick: The Very Best

Arts, Culture & Media

Playlist anxiety this party season? It’s The Very Best to the rescue. Fronted by a Malawian Esau Mwamwaya, the band made mixtape history last year with its killer remixes of M.I.A’s ‘Paper Planes’ and Vampire Weekend’s ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.’ Even without those tunes, the album offers dizzying layers of Afropop and sunny vocals in […]

African elephant

Nearly wiped out by poaching, 520 elephants relocated to new, safer home in Malawi

Environment

Malawi on Thursday celebrated the successful conclusion of a two-year project moving 520 sedated elephants by truck to a reserve where the animals had been nearly wiped out by poaching.