"By launching these programmes worth €185 million today, will have a real impact in people's lives and for sustainable agriculture in Malawi. They will do so by increasing agricultural production, helping farmers adapt to climate change and breaking the annual cycle of food insecurity"
Press and information team of the Delegation to MALAWI - 08/06/2017 - 09:38
Press and information team of the Delegation to MALAWI - 08/06/2017 - 09:20
"Last year we celebrated 40 years of EU-Malawi partnership. Where initially our relationship had a strong focus on Development cooperation, today it is much broader and deeper and includes important political, trade and investment dimensions". Ambassador Marchel Gerrmann
Press and information team of the Delegation to MALAWI - 25/05/2017 - 11:41
ISEM has a special focus on girls in all its interventions and will ensure that girls are supported to access and complete secondary school. Bursaries, bicycles and other support mechanisms will be provided to ensure that this objective is achieved.
Press and information team of the Delegation to MALAWI - 24/02/2017 - 07:16Medical suspensions have been released for the fighters competing at UFC 135: "Jones vs. Rampage," which took place on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, from the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.
With several of the bouts ending early (and violently), there were a handful of fighters who were flagged follow up visits with their doctors.
Chief among them is the second coming himself, Jon Jones, who was given 180 days on the sidelines unless he gets clearance from a doctor for his bum feet, in which case he'll only be laid up for 45 days.
The price one pays to be the best and all that.
Joining him on injured reserve is Aaron Riley, who had his jaw shattered by "The Boogeyman," Anthony Ferguson, in their preliminary card lightweight brouhaha. Riley will be riding the pine for 180 days unless he gets physician's clearance with 90 days mandatory vacation.
But that's not all.
Here is the complete list of UFC 135 injuries and their medical instructions (via MMAWeekly.com):.
Just a quick reminder: Fighters often return to action much quicker once doctors give them the green light. The lengthy suspensions are just a precaution in most cases.
For complete UFC 135 results and blow-by-blow coverage of the main card action click here and here.
Connect with MMAmania.com!Tropical Storm Kyle appears to be heading directly up the U.S. Eastern Seaboard this weekend and according to the NOAA supercomputer may dump a fair bit of rain over the U.S. Capitol at the weekend – Sunday October 13th NZT.
NOAA National Hurricane Center generated strike chart – the red area shows where Kyle is expected to make landfall in the next few hours.
The following images show Kyle’s rainfall over Washington as forecast by the Medium Range Forecast Model of the NOAA weather supercomputer. The forecast maps are at 12 hour intervals and rain is shown in coloured lines.
Matt Stevenson (BMW 1000) climbed to the top of the Derby Phoenix club’s 1300cc Four-stroke championship with four top-four finishes in the second round of the series at Cadwell Park.
After seven races this season Stevenson now heads Lee Wilson (BMW 1000) by 131 points to 126.
Stevenson, the 22-year-old from Ripon, Yorkshire made a good start in the eight-lap first big bike race on Saturday afternoon, holding second place to Lee Wilson (BMW 1000) at the end of the opening lap.
But Stevenson slipped back to fourth place by lap five and was lucky to cross the line third, after Kingsley Ruddy (Kawasaki 1000) had retired with mechanical problems on the last lap.
Wilson took the win, just over three seconds clear of Stuart Martin (Kawasaki 1000).
Ruddy bounced back to take victory in race two, run in heavy rain, with Martin second again, just under three seconds down.
Wilson picked the wrong tyres and could only managed third, over 16 seconds clear of Stevenson.
Wilson, the 2014 Derby Phoenix club’ 1300cc Four-stroke champion, had now stretched his lead in this year’s series to 44 over Stevenson, but things went downhill on the Sunday.
Using Pirellis, instead of the usual Dunlops on his newly acquired BMW, Wilson struggled home sixth in Sunday’s first race, won by Stevenson, by nearly 30 seconds ahead of Martin.
A long way off the right set-up on the new tyres, Wilson gave the final race a miss and with Stevenson the winner again, this time over 12 seconds in front of the consistent Martin, the championship lead had swung in favour of Stevenson, by five points.
On the first day he had a good race with Martin to win the ten-lapper by seven tenths of a second.
Jordan Rushby (Yamaha 600), the talented teenager from Beverley, Yorkshire was third, chased home by Tom Neave (Kawasaki 600), with Tom’s twin brother, Tim, on his Kawasaki 600 fifth.
Martin won race two, with Wilson just one second behind. Tim Neave was third, brother Tom fourth, Aaron Clarke (Kawasaki 600) fifth and Rushby sixth all covered by two seconds.
Clarke won the third Allcomers race late on Sunday, beating Tim Neave by over four seconds, with Martin third in the damp conditions.
Jordan Rushby found the opposition tough in both the Formula 600 and the Superstock 600 class, but still managed to extend his lead in both championships.
After four hard-fought battles Rushby led the F600 series by 38 points from Aaron Clarke and the Superstock 600 championship by the same margin over Clarke and Callum White.
The 21-year-old Neave twins, Tom and Tim, from nearby Saxilby, on their Kawasakis, dominated race one, grabbing first and second places. Aaron Clarke chased Tim over the line, less than a fifth of a second down.
Rushby failed to finish, pulling out on the third lap, after some big slides caused by using old tyres.
He crossed the line over 15 seconds clear of Rushby, who had switched to newer, though still used, tyres.
Tim Neave was third, but brother Tom, who had been second at one stage crashed at the Mountain on the sixth and final lap.
Tim Neave won race three, beating Clarke by over 14 seconds. The rest were over a minute further back. Paul Rogers (Kawasaki) third, five seconds in front of Rushby.
Tom Neave was forced to pull out in the closing stages with handling problems caused by a damaged head stock in the previous day’s crash.
Clark notched up another win in the final wet race, beating Tim Neave by over four seconds. Rushby was well back, in third place, but having done enough to increase his lead in the two championships.
Tom Neave only managed a lap before being forced to pull out again.
Michael Hand (Yamaha 750) joined some illustrious company by winning the Yellowbelly Cup, a completion run for many years and open only to racers from Lincolnshire.
The handicappers were kind to him. He took the lead on the fourth of ten laps and ran out a comfortable winner, over 31 seconds in front of Callum White (Kawasaki 600) and Arnie Shelton (Honda 125).
Pre-race favourites, Stuart Martin (Kawasaki 1000) and Aaron Clarke (Kawasaki 600) were given too much to do. Martin fought through to fourth, but Clarke, who set the fastest lap crashed out at Mansfield after eight of ten laps, battling with Martin.
Alan Naylor (Yamaha 250) was the star of the Two-stroke GP class. The 39-year-old from Wakefield, Yorkshire notched up two wins and a second place over the weekend.
He headed home Dan Walling (Yamaha 250) by over 12 seconds in race one, setting the fastest lap of the race.
He won race two, beating Paul Fyson (Honda 125) by 19 seconds and again set the fastest lap.
Rich Grinling (Yamaha 250), who had been racing in the ACU 250 championship at Oulton Park the previous day, joined the line-up for Sunday’s two races.
Grinling won the first of those, in wet conditions, by just four hundredths of a second from Naylor, the pair chased home by Fyson.
Naylor failed to start the final race, suffering from a flat battery at the start of the warm up lap.
Arnie Shelton (Honda 125) took victory, over 17 seconds in front of Walling, with Grinling third, just over a second further back.
Mark Ess took both the Hi-Lite Signs/Ady Butler Electrical sponsored 1989 OW-01 and the 1993 YZF750SP to compete in the Classic Superbike classic. He took the OW01 out in practice and had no issues.
Due to poor entry levels, the Classic Superbikes and the Thunderbikes were combined with the 1300 open races. This meant he had some difficult competition with the modern 200bhp bikes with all their fancy traction control etc. However, he managed 1st in class and 6th on the road in race one.
He used the YZF750SP for the Yellowbelly practice, but all was not well. The fitting of a new shock had introduced a handling problem