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Chinese trick African Malawi Children into Chanting 'I am a Low IQ Black Monster'
Malawi’s foreign minister Nancy Tembo lashed out at Chinese foreign ministry’s African affairs department director general Wu Peng earlier this week after a video went viral where Malawian children were seen chanting racist phrases demeaning themselves.
Tembo said the she felt ‘deeply pained and disgusted’.
The news agency BBC upon further investigation through a documentary titled ‘Racism...
DR Congo army kills 40 people taking part in uprising
Congolese security forces have killed at least 40 people involved in a violent uprising in the capital Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army says.
The army said it had regained control of the state television headquarters, RTNC, army headquarters and the international airport in Kinshasa following an attack by some 70 gunmen early Monday.
The clashes reportedly broke out between supporters...
Madonna’s Charity Fails in Bid to Finance School
Madonna during a visit to Malawi in 2007.
A high-profile charitable foundation set up to build a school for impoverished girls in Malawi, founded by the singer Madonna and fellow devotees of a prominent Jewish mysticism movement, has collapsed after spending $3.8 million on a project that never came to fruition.
The board of directors of the organization, Raising Malawi, has been ousted and replaced...
Malawi set to make breaking wind a crime
Causing a stink: The government of Malawi, led by Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, are planning to outlaw breaking wind.
Breaking wind is set to be made a crime in an African country.
The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders ‘who foul the air’ in a bid to ‘mould responsible and disciplined citizens.’
But locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be...
Villagers forced to move for Madonna's school
Madonna is a Crypto Jewess practicing Kabbalah
Malawi’s government has told a group of villagers they will have to move to make way for a $US15 million ($A16.84 million) girls’ school being built by pop star Madonna.
Residents have refused to leave the site just outside the capital, Lilongwe.
Lilongwe District Commissioner Charles Kalemba told 200 villagers on Thursday that the government...
Madonna may adopt another African from Malawi
Jewish pop star Madonna says she’s considering a brother or sister for son David
LILONGWE – Pop star Madonna has said she may adopt another child from the poor southern African country of Malawi despite the controversy surrounding an earlier adoption.
Critics accused the government of skirting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi, which has been badly hit by the AIDS...