After two or three days of fermentation, the coconuts are taken to the swamps where the mosquitoes live, the plugs are removed and a few of the coconuts are thrown into the stagnant pools of water. Experiments have demonstrated that this kills all the larvae and keeps working for 45 days. Battered men Controversy surrounds claims that men are increasingly falling victim to spousal abuse in Malawi. Let's not pretend things are not happening in our society,' says Phiri, head of a village on the eastern side of Lake Malawi. But others feel that the cases of male abuse are too few to raise any major concern.
Malawian women are more victimized because of culture.
It is unfortunate that men choose to make minor cases appear like harassment against them,' she says. Director of the Civil Liberties Committee Emmie Chanika says that in 95 per cent of spousal-abuse cases the victim is the women and that this is why domestic violence against women needs the more urgent attention. No 47 Stealthy hazard Heat stress kills more people worldwide than any other weather phenomenon, including cyclones and floods, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Deaths rise by over 50 per cent on average during heat waves, and are expected to climb even higher over the coming decades as a result of global warming. And the cities hardest hit by heat stress are not the hottest.