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Finding alternatives to farm input subsidies
- Category: Development
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- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
Ruth Msukwa a student at Amalika Teacher Training College in the southern Malawi district of Thyolo has reservations with the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) because of its effects on the already staggering local economy, and how beneficiaries are identified.
The lost glory of Youth Week
- Category: Development
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- Written by Nation Online
As Malawi commemorates International Day of the Youth this week under the theme ‘Building a better world, partnering with youths, Ephraim Nyondo rekindles the memories of Youth Week, and wonders if its end also killed youths’ relevance to society.
Finding solutions to end child labour
- Category: Development
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- Written by Fatsani Gunya
It is common knowledge that agriculture forms the backbone of Malawi’s economy. Tobacco; the country’s green gold, contributes about 60 percent of the foreign exchange.
Devaluation hits hard on Malawians
- Category: Development
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- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
Mary Kwananda is a mother of four children and divorced. She is caught in dilemma between settling utility bills first or buying groceries. Since the over 49 percent kwacha devaluation, Kwananda is struggling to feed her family.
Scramble for land as Lake Chilwa dries up
- Category: Development
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- Written by Yasin Maoni
Mposa beach on the shores of Lake Chilwa in the eastern Malawi district of Machinga used to be a haven for John Ngwenya. It is now turning into a waste land, a complete hell.
A village disconnected for six months, annually
- Category: Development
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- Written by Reader
To others, it might have been just a bridge but to the people of Chapananga and Changoima villages, the over-pass on Mwanza River in the southern Malawi district of Chikhwawa was an essential part of their life.
Climate aid makes up 2% of aid to Malawi
- Category: Development
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- Written by Emmanuel Muwamba
Despite climate change being a challenge to Malawi, little aid is trickling in to the country to address its adverse effects.
Teaming up to save water kiosks from political interference
- Category: Development
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- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
Each time a new political party gets into power, some communities in Ndirande Township in Blantyre-Malabada Constituency know it is that time once again that ugly political bickering resumes over the running of water kiosks in the area.
Do Malawians know their rights?
- Category: Development
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- Written by Mwereti Kanjo
Alfred Mangazawo of Ndirande Township, Blantyre, is an alleged victim of police brutality. He says in May last year, he was woken up in the night and beaten for a crime he did not commit. He was lucky to escape the police’s uncompromising beating. However, when he went to the police station the next day to find out why he was roughed up, he learnt it was a case of mistaken identity.
Chimbiranjala’s climate curse
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
Chimbiranjala Village is a metaphor of the rural poor’s exposure to effects of climate change. Named after a Tumbuka term for "escape from hunger", founders of the area in T/A Kaluluma, Kasungu, migrated over 500 kilometres from the barren hills South West of Nkhata Bay in search of fertile land and food security.
