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	<title>Comments on: A dual carriageway from Chitipa to Nsanje is needed in Malawi</title>
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		<title>By: Clement Nyirenda</title>
		<link>http://nthambazale.com/2009/01/dual-carriageway-from-chitipa-to-nsanje-in-malawi/comment-page-1/#comment-6419</link>
		<dc:creator>Clement Nyirenda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For your information, Zimbabwe has secured US$1 billion to transform the country’s main highway, running from the South African border in the south to the Zambian border in the north into a dual carriageway.This gives me more confidence to think that Malawi can also do it.
.-= Clement&#180;s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://nthambazale.com/2009/08/vopium-a-mobile-voip-startup-from-copenhagen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vopium, a mobile VoIP Startup from Copenhagen&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For your information, Zimbabwe has secured US$1 billion to transform the country’s main highway, running from the South African border in the south to the Zambian border in the north into a dual carriageway.This gives me more confidence to think that Malawi can also do it.<br />
.-= Clement&#180;s last blog ..<a href="http://nthambazale.com/2009/08/vopium-a-mobile-voip-startup-from-copenhagen/" rel="nofollow">Vopium, a mobile VoIP Startup from Copenhagen</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: Clement</title>
		<link>http://nthambazale.com/2009/01/dual-carriageway-from-chitipa-to-nsanje-in-malawi/comment-page-1/#comment-6403</link>
		<dc:creator>Clement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As far as I know, it is called M1. This is Malawi&#039;s longest road which runs from the northern border to the southern border.The Lilongwe–Blantyre road, the busiest in the country, is part of the M1
.-= Clement&#180;s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://nthambazale.com/2009/08/african-universities-have-similar-problems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;African Universities have similar problems&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As far as I know, it is called M1. This is Malawi&#8217;s longest road which runs from the northern border to the southern border.The Lilongwe–Blantyre road, the busiest in the country, is part of the M1<br />
.-= Clement&#180;s last blog ..<a href="http://nthambazale.com/2009/08/african-universities-have-similar-problems/" rel="nofollow">African Universities have similar problems</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: stormaxe</title>
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		<dc:creator>stormaxe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is the actual of road M1? or is M1 the name everyone calls this road in malawi? Just curious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the actual of road M1? or is M1 the name everyone calls this road in malawi? Just curious.</p>
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		<title>By: Kachepa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kachepa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a posting on chingweshole.blogspot.com that provides some complimentary information on roads in Malawi</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a posting on chingweshole.blogspot.com that provides some complimentary information on roads in Malawi</p>
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		<title>By: COLLETA MUNKHONDIA</title>
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		<dc:creator>COLLETA MUNKHONDIA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is Colleta from Malawi but resident in Ireland.  I really think it will be great if Bingu would try to bring change.  I know its very hard, but if he fulfills he will make up history.

At the moment am in college am studying travel and tourism with international airline studies but the moment i get in class the lectures keeps asking me if we have better roads.  Malawi is a beautiful Natural Country, so many people here in Europe want to visit and do a little of charity work but they can&#039;t due to poor roads.

The government also has to know tourism is needed in Malawi which will help us bring up our economy.  the more the tourists spend the more the people will earn by promoting their businesses and others finding employment in our poor country.
Malawi come on and improve our roads.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is Colleta from Malawi but resident in Ireland.  I really think it will be great if Bingu would try to bring change.  I know its very hard, but if he fulfills he will make up history.</p>
<p>At the moment am in college am studying travel and tourism with international airline studies but the moment i get in class the lectures keeps asking me if we have better roads.  Malawi is a beautiful Natural Country, so many people here in Europe want to visit and do a little of charity work but they can&#8217;t due to poor roads.</p>
<p>The government also has to know tourism is needed in Malawi which will help us bring up our economy.  the more the tourists spend the more the people will earn by promoting their businesses and others finding employment in our poor country.<br />
Malawi come on and improve our roads.</p>
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		<title>By: Austin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My personal opinion is that all *major* earth paved roads (Chileka-Nkula, Lobi-Chimbiya, Ntcheu-Kasinje and others) should be upgraded to bitumen first before upgrading to dual lanes. As is the case happening now on the Zomba-Thyolo-Nsanje and other roads. Alongside that extra money pumped in irrigation, education and health care. Then we will have enough healthy, educated and well feed people to build and use the dual lane!

If I have not been misled there will be a major road from Kamuzu International Airport that goes into Area 25 (Dzenza), past Area 49 cut across into Likuni up into Area 36 and come out near the Bunda road block. All this to reroute traffic that would normally pass through town. That should buy a few more years before Kamuzu Procession Road is turned into a dual lane!! :-)

And just as a side note some people say my views are Marxist! LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My personal opinion is that all *major* earth paved roads (Chileka-Nkula, Lobi-Chimbiya, Ntcheu-Kasinje and others) should be upgraded to bitumen first before upgrading to dual lanes. As is the case happening now on the Zomba-Thyolo-Nsanje and other roads. Alongside that extra money pumped in irrigation, education and health care. Then we will have enough healthy, educated and well feed people to build and use the dual lane!</p>
<p>If I have not been misled there will be a major road from Kamuzu International Airport that goes into Area 25 (Dzenza), past Area 49 cut across into Likuni up into Area 36 and come out near the Bunda road block. All this to reroute traffic that would normally pass through town. That should buy a few more years before Kamuzu Procession Road is turned into a dual lane!! <img src='http://nthambazale.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>And just as a side note some people say my views are Marxist! LOL</p>
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		<title>By: Clement Nyirenda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Clement Nyirenda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@editor:That&#039;s the way to go. A bullet train service from Cape to Cairo would also be great.</description>
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		<title>By: Clement Nyirenda</title>
		<link>http://nthambazale.com/2009/01/dual-carriageway-from-chitipa-to-nsanje-in-malawi/comment-page-1/#comment-4111</link>
		<dc:creator>Clement Nyirenda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Austin: Yes I agree, dual lanes are not immune to accidents, but I am sure they help to reduce the occurrence of head-on accidents. On our current single lane, it is just too scaring for one to go into the &quot;danger zone&quot; whenever he wants to overtake another car. Besides that dual lanes make driving faster and more enjoyable. If my memory serves me right, the Musina-Johannesburg road has dual lanes. I cannot comment on the Johannesburg-Bloemfontein road but the Johannesburg-Durban one has dual lanes as well. It is always a great joy to travel in those roads.

Rome was not built in one day. We can start by building a dual carriageway between Lilongwe and Blantyre. With the development of the Shire-Zambezi Waterway, it will be easy to extend it from Blantyre to Nsanje. From Lilongwe it can be extended to Kasungu in one phase then Mzimba, Mzuzu, Karonga and finally Chitipa. But for this to happen, we need a strategic plan as a nation and that all of us must work toward that plan regardless of our political affiliation. Where do we see our country, in terms of infrastructure, education, population, health, economy etc, in 30 years&#039; time? We are so occupied with &quot;wars&quot; between party leaders. The Shire-Zambezi Waterway seems to be a nice project but if the current government loses the May elections, I doubt if it will continue. The new guys will think that by continuing it, all the praise will go to the Bingu administration. They will come up with their own projects which will also be discontinued by the next government.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Austin: Yes I agree, dual lanes are not immune to accidents, but I am sure they help to reduce the occurrence of head-on accidents. On our current single lane, it is just too scaring for one to go into the &#8220;danger zone&#8221; whenever he wants to overtake another car. Besides that dual lanes make driving faster and more enjoyable. If my memory serves me right, the Musina-Johannesburg road has dual lanes. I cannot comment on the Johannesburg-Bloemfontein road but the Johannesburg-Durban one has dual lanes as well. It is always a great joy to travel in those roads.</p>
<p>Rome was not built in one day. We can start by building a dual carriageway between Lilongwe and Blantyre. With the development of the Shire-Zambezi Waterway, it will be easy to extend it from Blantyre to Nsanje. From Lilongwe it can be extended to Kasungu in one phase then Mzimba, Mzuzu, Karonga and finally Chitipa. But for this to happen, we need a strategic plan as a nation and that all of us must work toward that plan regardless of our political affiliation. Where do we see our country, in terms of infrastructure, education, population, health, economy etc, in 30 years&#8217; time? We are so occupied with &#8220;wars&#8221; between party leaders. The Shire-Zambezi Waterway seems to be a nice project but if the current government loses the May elections, I doubt if it will continue. The new guys will think that by continuing it, all the praise will go to the Bingu administration. They will come up with their own projects which will also be discontinued by the next government.</p>
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