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Haunted by unsafe abortion
Just four months after delivering her third child, Margaret Kawala, 42, discovered she was three months pregnant. She felt dejected.…
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Learning the hard way in Rwanda
During a recent visit to one of East Africa’s rising economies, Rwanda, by African Union (AU) delegates there was no…
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Hierarchy shadows conquering our democracy
The former ruling People’s Party (PP) on Friday sealed its national convention, where founding leader and Malawi’s ex-president Joyce Banda…
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Lake Chilwa dry to cracking clay
For nearly 3 500 Malawians at Chisi Island in Zomba District, Lake Chilwa is almost everything. The number doubles…
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Water-food nexus: Rows grow as Lake Chiuta dries
How can farmers and fishers co-exist as lakes dry? JAMES CHAVULA unravels a simmering in a wetland slowly drying…
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Forced to choose: No contraceptive, no ARVs
A new drug could save 25 000 women living with HIV but could it come at the cost of their…
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Study reveals menstrual health gaps
New evidence from eight districts in Malawi shows the mushrooming of organisations promoting menstrual health and hygiene can improve…
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Recycled seed threatens tobacco industry
Mavuto Nkhoma, a smallholder farmer in Kasungu, nearly quit growing tobacco last season after being sold fake seeds that…
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African ministers for groundwater conservation
It waters crops. It defies borderlines. At worst, countries scramble for it when water diplomacy breaks down. Groundwater is pivotal…
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Healing Lingamasa to save Shire River
Seventy community members from Mangochi made an all-important trip to the country’s power generation station, Nkula. This was in…
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Road project revives hopes
Joseph Pamtunda, 22, a resident of Maphura Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Maphwira in Nsanje, leans comfortably on his bicycle…
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Agriculture for development agenda in Malawi
In this article TAMANI NKHONO-MVULA is trying to the question how can we make agriculture a tool for development. Since…
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Whose interest is toilet business?
The sun sinks below the skyline and darkness is looming over the commercial city of Blantyre. Some residents living…
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Karonga’s quest for potable water
In just three years, Karonga District has lost about 10 people to waterborne diseases, particularly cholera and registered over…
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Woes of landless Kasungu ex-tenants
Shadreck Kaifa recalls that he relocated from Mulanje to Kasungu with his parents when he was only five-years old.…
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The curse of being disabled
On a Monday morning, Stella Chiwaka, a 28-year-old primary school teacher in Mchinji, left her home to seek family…
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Tobacco: Deadly business—Part ii
BY Sarah Boseley for The Guardian, UK The leaf-buying companies, Alliance One, Universal—in Malawi known as Limbe Leaf—and the tobacco giant…
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Bringing satellite TV closer to rural masses
Isaac Damian of Chokola Village in Nsanje is no longer your typical villager. For the first time, his family enjoys…
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Perils of secluded community
Makumbo, a remote area in Nkhata Bay, is a mountainous neighbourhood secluded by sharp hills and valleys on the…
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Breastfeeding woes for working mothers
By 7am Jane Mangulenje, a Blantyre-based insurance company employee, is physically ready for work. However, she is bothered to…
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