Lilongwe, a Beautiful Place Faces Drought, Climate Change and Epidemic Disaster!

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Lilongwe, Malawi, a Beautiful Place in Danger!

Lilongwe is a district in the central region of Malawi that covers 6,159 square kilometres and it has 14,268,711 inhabitants. It is the largest districts that have exposed to social and economical problems.

Those problems affect many national resources and many productive sectors in the country in spite of the rapid development in the capital.

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The first President Hasting Kamuzu Banda chose the city, which has the same name to be the capital city of Malawi on 1 January 1975 after a building process that took ten years and displaced many people from their homes to build the new government buildings.

The new capital that replaced the previous capital Zomba is developing rapidly with modern services provided here and there among them even bank machines and fast food restaurants.

When the Scotch explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone arrived as the first European in present-day Malawi in 1859, the African Bantu strains had already lived in the area for more than a thousand years.

Through his travel adventures in Africa that started in 1840, Livingstone was the first European also to see Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855 and gave them the name of the British Queen at his time.

One of the things that first caught Dr. Livingstone's mind was the "Bomas". Those are fortified African villages with palisades around the huts, which would protect them from wild animals, hostile tribes and local slave traders.

Since then, Bantu word, "Boma" velvet used to describe all types of fencing, such as colonial fortresses and temporary shelters.

In the small villages in Malawi today, you can experience "Bomas" in regular, decorative shapes, designed to protect crops, harvesting and livestock.

However, although they look picturesque when you see them from above, there are two phenomena; they cannot protect people against and those phenomena are the spread of HIV / AIDS and increasing drought.

The 14 million people in Malawi are among the poorest people in the world. 85 % of those poor people live in rural areas and they are small farmers who depend on crops such as maize, millet and cassava.

Up to two thirds of the populations live below the national poverty line. Because of drought and floods, they are unable to produce enough crops to meet their basic needs and are heavily dependent on foreign aid.

While more than one million people live with HIV / AIDS and the epidemic is growing so rapidly, that means many households lack adult labour.

In 2050, it is expected that global warming will increase the temperature by 2-3º C, and change the rainfall patterns and reduce the available water.

It can lead to severe droughts that will affect more than 10 million people in Malawi's rural areas. Along with HIV / AIDS epidemic, this may create a downward spiral for the vulnerable people of Malawi.

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