MALAWI: Will the financial storm hit us?

LILONGWE Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, is watching the global financial storm with a great deal of unease, uncertain what effect the credit crunch will have on a national budget that is more than 40 percent donor-funded. The small southern African country of 13 million people - whose profile has been raised in recent years by Madonna's celebrity patronage and current messy divorce proceedings - fears its major donors will batten down their...