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Development
How Local Development Fund could be risky
- Category: Development
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- Written by Edwin Nyirongo
Money has always been associated with evil. From biblical times, Jesus Christ was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who wanted to make a quick buck.
Farmers cooperatives vs individual farming
- Category: Development
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- Written by Samuel Chibaya
He spent millions of kwacha to fly Malawians to the United States of America in January this year where they toured farming cooperatives. The farmers got invigorated that cooperative farming is the way to go if Malawi is to move up the economic ladder.
What is delaying digital migration in Africa?
- Category: Development
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- Written by Phillip Pemba
When MultiChoice Africa approached Ethel Siliwanlisa to include her household in the trials of digital terrestrial television (DDT) signal transmission technology in South Africa, a sense of fear locked her mind.
Meet Obama’s major fund-raiser in New Hampshirev
- Category: Development
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- Written by Caroline Somanje
Built purely from wood in a suburb is a modest house in Manchester New Hampshire (NH), one of America’s 50 states.
A lake drying up, along with livelihoods
- Category: Development
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- Written by Emmanuel Muwamba
Abandoned boats mark the falling water levels of Lake Chilwa, Malawi’s second largest lake which used to measure 60 km by 40 km, but it is shrinking after two years of below-average rainfall.
Would a policy on disaster preparedness help?
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Malawi had no legal and institutional framework for disaster management before the 1991 Phalombe flash floods which killed scores of people, farm animals and damaged property and crops.
Question of criminalising marital rape
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Is there really something like marital rape? If it is there, is it feasible to criminalise it as a means to curb violence against HIV positive women? Ephraim Nyondo brings up the debate.
Malawi prepared for disasters?
- Category: Development
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- Written by John Kasalika
How ready and empowered are communities in Malawi to respond when natural disasters befall them? Ephraim Nyondo finds out.
When relief food brings hope
- Category: Development
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- Written by MERCY MALIKWA
Hunger is an enemy to progress. It forced James Nagome, a father of six, to take time off the field. And that would have meant more hunger for his family.
It’s money or poor health on Lake Chilwa
- Category: Development
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- Written by Josephine Chinele
Yamikani Kula of Mwaluka Village, Traditional Authority Kuntumanje in Zomba has known no other means of earning a living other than fishing.
