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Development
Cries of displaced children
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
The impact of conflict on children must be everyone’s concern. Those at Bvumbwe camp cry for warring Thyolo villages to give peace a chance. James Chavula writes
Easing rural access to ICT
- Category: Development
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- Written by Gospel Mwalwanda
Johnson Sembo, 28, did the unthinkable when he left Mzuzu City in northern Malawi for his village to acquire information and communication technology (ICT) skills. When many Malawians go to cities and towns to bring their career ambitions to fruition, Sembo did the reverse.
Inside evacuees camp
- Category: Development
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- Written by Samuel Chibaya
Chitsanzo Kasalika of Kandulu Village, Traditional Authority Ndindi in Salima, will never forget the dawn on January 6 this year.
Whither gender equality law in Malawi?
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
Typical of remote parts of the country, the hills and valleys of Chapananga in Chikhwawa offer overwhelming encounters with teenage mothers with diminishing chances in life.
When bars are home to toddlers
- Category: Development
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- Written by Malawi News Agency
Juliana is barely four years old. She lives at Msungwi Trading Centre in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. At her age, she sees men fighting and knifing each other almost every day. The little girl has heard and learnt a string of vulgar words that are exchanged in beer drinking places.
Floods: Counting the losses
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
Struggling to kindle a fire on the wet veranda of her leaky grass-thatched hut, Christina Sitenala, a resident of Chipondeni Village, T/A Mlolo in Nsanje sums up her dilemma as “nyatwainango”. According to locals, the Chisena catchphrase means “another misfortune of no mean proportion”.
Malawi roads crying out for help
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
The rainy season in Malawi has left most of the roads potholed and almost unusable. The situation puts engineering into question.
Road signs vandalism, Malawi’s challenge
- Category: Development
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- Written by Alfred Banda
The opening of the Lakeshore (M5) Road in the 1980s was a relief to people travelling between Nkhata Bay and Ntcheu districts.
Circles restoring Malawi’s women rights
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
It was supposed to be a thing of the past in Malawi. After all, examples, including Herbert Mankhwala’s hacking the arms of his wife Marietta Samuel in 2005, vividly show gender-based violence is evil.
Boosting agriculture production through technology
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
They have been hard-working farmers for close to two decades now but they have little to show for it.
