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Editors Pick
Malawi turns to endangered crop for economic expansion
Malawi has embraced a lofty ambition to expand banana production beyond basketfuls seen on sale nationwide. Government has selected the…
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Development
Making camps safe for all
At Jombo Primary School in Chikwawa District, a suggestion box welcoming the deepest fears of people displaced by Cyclone Freddy…
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Feature
Tackling cholera at the source
W hen a businessperson from Limbe Market in Blantyre contracted cholera in July 2022, health workers at South Lunzu Health…
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Feature
Learners bear cholera brunt
Around noon, Machinjiri, Blantyre City’s largest township, transitions into a hustle and bustle despite suffering the most from the deadliest…
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Development
Cookstoves for healthy forests
For years, group village head Pongwe of Zomba has seen people planting trees but the numbers growing remain “far below…
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Feature
Cyclone stirs cholera worries
Malawi’s worst cholera outbreak has left Penjani Chunda with little time to rest. Every day, the Blantyre district environmental health…
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Editors Pick
Cyclone cripples health services
Every health facility guarantees its surrounding population access to quality care within reach, but Gladys Enoch returned home gutted on…
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National News
MHRC pens prison chiefon malnutrition surge
Following The Nation revelations about malnutrition among inmates at Bvumbwe Prison in Thyolo, Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has written…
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Feature
Children just being children
It is 7am at Naotcha Primary School in Blantyre where deadly mudslides displaced thousands from the slopes of Soche Mountain…
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Front Page
Malnutrition haunts inmates
F rail young men chained to sickbeds at Thyolo District Hospital personify surging malnutrition feared to have claimed a life…
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Development
Children bear cyclone slap
Grief echoes in every corner of Bokosi Village in Phalombe District, hit hard by rockslides caused by Cyclone Freddy. In…
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Feature of the Week
Putting humanitarian aid in deserving hands
Amid disasterous impacts of Cyclone Freddy, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA highlights how a mix of community dialogues and vulnerability…
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Front Page
Chakwera lauds Qatar for K600bn LDCs’ boost
President Lazarus Chakwera has commended Qatar for providing $600 million (about K600 billion) to help low-income countries, including Malawi, beat…
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Front Page
Chakwera hits at rich nations
President Lazarus Chakwera has warned the world’s 46 poorest countries against complacency in their push to end poverty and graduate…
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Feature
Soche residents march against Escom’s broken promise
Over two hundred protesters from Namame in Soche Township, Blantyre, have marched to Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi offices at…
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National News
Global solidarity against poverty faces test
The Fifth United Nations Conference for Least Developed Countries (LDC5) slated for next month in Doha, Qatar presents a litmus…
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Weekend Investigate
Mudi clean-up wins Water Warriors Award
Monday to Sunday, water-wise Malawians pick waste from Mudi River in Blantyre. The Mudi River Clean-Up campaigners do the dirty…
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National News
Celebrating right to clean environment amid piling rot
From Chitipa to Nsanje, piling waste flash past. The heaps signpost travellers to Malawi’s trading centres, towns and cities. They…
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Environment
Malawi wins new climate funds
Malawi is among nine countries in the frame to benefit from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) worth about K350 billion…
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Q & A
Restoring patriotism and professionalism
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, High Court Judge Chifundo Kachale, was among the speakers to watch at the Anti-Corruption Bureau…
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