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Long search for safe water
In Siliya Village in Ntcheu, potable water is a scarce commodity few families can afford. They walk almost 15…
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Coughs, urine…and stools
New findings show the search for effective TB screening is leaving nothing to chance, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes.…
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Pupils not teachers’ brides
Among teachers in Malawi, ‘burning a payslip’ is getting sacked or jailed for having sex with a schoolgirl. The press…
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Human traffickers exploit Dzaleka refugee camp
Human traffickers have invaded Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa. The syndicate, involved in the racket that sees economic migrants from…
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It’s Salome’s birthday, but…
On this day in 2001, a baby girl was born to the Felix family in Lisungwi, a rural setting in…
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Rescued from jaws of resistant TB
Esther Loleya is the epitome of discrimination that comes with TB. She was chased from her marital home. Why? Her…
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Giving the girl-child a voice
It is a sunny Thursday, October 11 this year. It is an ordinary day for everyone else, except schoolgirls in…
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No fire, no flour, no food
The mid-day sunshine is blazing in group village head (GVH) Alumando in Chikwawa. It is lunchtime, but many residents…
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Human trafficking syndicate exploits refugee camp
Dzaleka Refuguee Camp became a war zone on September 25 last month as police moved in to crush human smuggling…
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Cashing on sunshine
When Edson Kanthenga bought his first mobile phone three years ago, he found himself walking over seven kilometres to recharge…
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Calming population pressure
Expecting her sixth child, Theresa Aaron, from Chikwawe Village in Ntchisi, is persuading her husband to adopt a family planning…
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The Audacity of Love
As I sit in my office with the door slightly open, my eyes wander and then stop at a name…
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A statue of Mahatma who?
At Ginnery Corner in Blantyre, labourers are sweating in the scorching sun to clear the ground for a monument…
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Chief learns from her past
A Traditional Authority (T/A), who married young, is terminating child marriages to ensure that every child learns, writes our…
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Extended family on trial
Call him John Phiri to conceal his identity. The troubled childhood of the young man, who spent 18 years in…
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Communities struggle to access mobile networks
By allowing some communities to have access to telecommunications services and leave others out Malawi government is simply promoting the…
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Gone with the wind
For 24 hours, violent winds battered homes and blew away roofs in a vast plain on the northern part of…
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Kasungu thirsts for water
Kasungu residents have taken to social media to vent their frustration with a worsening water crisis plaguing the tobacco-growing town.…
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Water for everyone
Tucked in a remote pocket of Chikwawa District, Marita Nelson grew up walking long distances in search of safe drinking…
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Rising temperatures push millions into poverty, hunger
Millions of people in Africa will suffer from poverty and hunger due to rising temperatures, unless governments take swift action.…
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