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Business News
Gender gap costs Malawi k64bn yearly
The United Nations (UN) Women has estimated that Malawi is losing $100 million (about K64 billion) each year due…
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Business News
Malawi, others make strides towards digital transformation
The World Bank says Malawi and her counterparts in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region have made strides towards digital transformation,…
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Development
Mchinji’s war on gender ills
Last year, Chifundo Tengani “lost everything” to her husband and discovered how long travels force survivors of gender-based violence (GBV)…
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Business News
Gender imbalances threaten financial inclusion—report
New Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) data shows that women continue to be disadvantaged in digital financial services access. If…
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Business News
Gender gap costs economy—study
Malawi can lift an estimated 238 000 people out of poverty and increase its crop output by 7.3 percent by…
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Development
Ignored scars of gender violence
Survivors of gender-based violence are dying for psychosocial support, especially counselling, writes Staff Reporter JOHN CHIRWA The happiest day for…
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Business News
Gender gap costs mw k80bn annually
A new joint study by United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme (Undp-Unep) has put Malawi’s total cost…
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Development
Costing Malawi’s child brides
For every step forward, Malawi seems to be moving two in reverse on ending child marriages. Figures from the…
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Development
Banking and balancing gender see-saw
Village banks are not all about money—the savings and loans—but also closing gender gaps in homes that were once over-dependent…
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Development
Circles restoring Malawi’s women rights
It was supposed to be a thing of the past in Malawi. After all, examples, including Herbert Mankhwala’s hacking the…
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National News
‘Lifeless’ trust sucksin K475 million
For four successive financial years, Treasury has allocated a total of K475 million to the Disability Trust Fund (DTF) that…
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Covid bares education flaws
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a ripple effect across the education systems of most countries. From the impacts of ill-adapted…
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Feature of the Week
Mobile courts aid GBV victims
Justice delayed is justice denied, but Malawi’s rural majority, including victims of gender-based violence (GBV), die thirsting for justice because…
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Feature
Ending violence starts at home
Growing up in Mzuzu City, people would refer to my father and my siblings as “Kayuni and Sons”—a common tagline…
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Feature
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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Feature
Keeping teachers in rural schools
Alberto Gwande and almost 800 pupils at Khuzi Primary School in Lilongwe need more teachers. The school is severely…
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Weekend Investigate
After Baby Grace’s burial
Baby Grace’s death will remain a shocking tragedy unless the country ends time-honoured public health gaps that compel women to…
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Feature
Legislators get ready for abortion law
No cameras. Just observe. For once, photographable first Deputy Speaker of Parliament Esther Mcheka Chilenje seemed allergic to pictures when…
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Editors Pick
Easter drama memories
The long Easter weekend seemed shorter for theatre enthusiast in Blantyre and Lilongwe as Solomonic Peacock Theatre Company dated Blantyre…
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Chichewa
Aflatoxin giving headache to farmers, threatens export market
Aflatoxin, a naturally occurring mycotoxins that are produced by aspergillus flavus and aspergillus parasiticus, a species of fungi, that usually…
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