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Nomsa Maseko reports on the political will and investment needed to kick-start new farming initiatives in Malawi.

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Home Secretary Theresa May is banning a herb called khat, a stimulant chewed by large sections of the Somali community and grown mainly in East Africa.

The number of small-scale tobacco growers in Zimbabwe has risen by 80% since President Robert Mugabe's controversial farm seizures in 2000, but a lack of investment is holding farmers back.

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Five years after Lehman Brothers’ seismic bust and just two years after euro member Greece defaulted, the concept of being too big or too strategic to fail is alive and well.

Fergus Walsh reports from Malawi on how the country has worked to reduce infant mortality.

Around 40% of Malawi's budget comes from international aid but its relationship with donors is strained - can the country survive without aid?

The Malawians learning to eat maize porridge with chopsticks