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Neno’s ‘garden of Eden’
One could not resist the chirping sounds of birds in the early hours of the morning. The chorus they created,…
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Making money from bee stings
After witnessing uncontrolled tree-cutting and bushfires, a group of men and women in Nkhata Bay formed a cooperative to promote…
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Plight of female learners
Ireen Chrispin, 10, a Standard Five pupil at Kasuza Junior Primary School in Mchinji, is not sure if she will…
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Indigenous crops enhance food security
With 10 bags and a granary full of maize, 70 year-old Lovemore Tachokere enters the 2019/2020 growing season with a…
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Man discovers niche in road project
Ketera Bikosi Kapira from Chapinga Village in Traditional Authority Mlolo’s area in Nsanje is one of the people affected by…
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Electricity miracles in Mulanje Mountain
Life around Mulanje Mountain, particularly in Bondo Village, Senior Traditional Authority (T/A) Mabuka, is evidence enough that nature provides for…
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Spotlight on GBV
During the night of October 24, Patrick Sambo, 26, broke into a grass-thatched house in Makuluni Village in Mzimba to…
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Schoolboys defend girls’ rights
To kick-start the 16 Days of Activism to combat gender-based violence, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA unravels how boys at…
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Tackling latent TB in prisons
Mass screening held at Chichiri Prison in the past fortnight has indicated how skin tests detect TB cases likely to…
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Two classes in one shed
It is Monday morning at Tsekwere Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Senior Chief Nankumba in Mangochi West Constituency, 114…
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Building a healthy Malawi
Due to poverty and other factors, most families in both urban or rural areas still strive to have good and…
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Regional dialogue tackles population, development
Representatives of various African countries, including Malawi, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to examine crucial challenges that have emerged as…
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Giving vulnerable students a future
Hearing birds tweet every morning and watching trees sway as the Dedza winds sweep over Kasonkanje Village, Traditional Authority (T/A)…
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Heatwave threatens tea yields, livelihoods
Tea is rated as the country’s second major foreign exchange earner after tobacco. Last year, revenue from the crop was…
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When there is no place to call home
Twenty-two-year-old Famous Kumbaya lived in Blantyre streets for four years. He ran away from home in 2012 after his father…
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Cooperating for better results
About 700 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are carrying out various interventions to complement government’s development agenda, this is according to the…
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Girls go dirty for clean money
Superstores’ shelves in Malawi are sagging under the weight of imported farm produce as the local harvest is widely perceived…
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Joy as Makwasa elderly regain sight
Imagine you are working in your maize field and suddenly you feel like there is sand in your eyes. You…
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Water project brings sanity in Mzimba
Water is life, so the saying goes. However, for some people in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mzikubola in Mzimba, the adage…
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Uterus ruins persist in public hospitals
On the morning of July 17 2019, Madalitso Simpokolwe of Area 18 in Lilongwe gave birth by Caesarean section at…
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