Posts Tagged ‘malawi’
Malawi’s flag war
So the Catholic Church and the Malawian president are facing off over… a flag. The president recently decided to change the flag, without much consultation, according to available reports. The old flag has black, red and green horizontal bands, with a red half-sun rising from the center of the flag. The new flag has red, [...]
Farm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of cool science-and-tech stuff has come together in the last five years to allow big insurance companies to offer super-small insurance policies — low-premiums, comparatively low-payout, to the usually poor, always vulnerable [...]
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