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Kauma takes on cholera
The just ended cholera in Malawi capital, Lilongwe, has jolted hard hit communities to do something about breakdowns in water…
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Time Malawi quit tobacco
Imagine this: You are a farmer in one of the poorest countries. Each year, the price of your harvest…
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From Fisp going up
Towera Kumwenda no longer endures uncertainties waiting for subsidised fertiliser and seed. The former beneficiary of the Farm Input…
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Drug resistant TB patients face expulsions
Our Staff Reporter exposes how a group village head expelled her daughter-in-law, a glimpse of discrimination and exclusion of people…
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Farming changes prisoners’ lives
Michael first entered Nkhata Bay Prison in 2015 when he was convicted of house-breaking. To him, it was clear that…
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Menthol chills, tobacco kills
Today is World No Tobacco Day. Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA smokes out heart-rending myths about menthol cigarettes. …
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Celebrating menstruation
The cycle of poverty is a complex phenomenon, yet an intervention that tackles just one of its elements can…
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Farmers’ solution in the bag
The harvest months of May and June should be a period of relief for Malawi’s farmers, after battling a…
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Fistula treatment: A healing too far
Women left behind because of aftermaths of fistula cry for greater investment to bring treatment closer to those who need…
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Bumps to Nyika National Park
On a stunning plateau in Rumphi West sits Nyika National Park, the country’s largest game haven. In the 3 200…
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From zero to a graduate
A girl who spent 10 years without any reason and push to learn has become the first graduate in…
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Long search for fistula treatment
One morning in 2014, Margret Rambiki’s started her routine day by drawing water for household chores before going to…
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Enter silent wildlife killer
While guards armed with rifles patrol protected wildlife reserves against poachers, a neglected enemy is silently sneaking into these…
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Ending child marriages
Like any other girl, she has a right to go to school. But this right was violated in 2017,…
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Silent sobs of women with fistula
Fistula repair surgeries are liberating women dehumanised by the treatable birth-related condition which leaves them disgraced and discriminated. It is…
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Pushing forward the last girl
On a sunny day, choruses of adolescent girls welcome you to Nkata in Malombe, a rural setting in Mangochi District.…
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When mines move in
Malawi should keep its promises to rural residents by providing access to information which protects livelihoods when mines move…
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Farmers coping with climate change
In February, while snow still settled on Canadian streets, Debora Kantor was experiencing heat and downpours in Malawi’s rural…
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When a nation ignores mothers
For Griffin Banda, a clinical officer at Ngabu Rural Hospital, the first three months of the year were horrendous to…
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Climate extremes, policy confuse farmers
Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full…
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