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Health
‘Remote communities need quality care too’
They are among the lowest-ranking cadre of the healthcare workforce, but disease control and surveillance assistants, formerly known as health…
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Development
Agcom spurs dairy cow breeding tips
Between Blantyre City and Mulanje Town, bikes carrying grass and milk tanks flash past. Unlike on many roads of Malawi,…
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Development
Thyolo farmers tea up
Thyolo farmers are toning down on maize growing to tee up generational wealth through a leaf long restricted to colonial-era…
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National News
APM’s climate change moment
President Peter Mutharika has ranked climate change among the top threats to Malawi’s fragile economy as disasters fuelled by global…
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Health
When lawmakers doze off
Last year was a moment of triumph over adversity for Alinafe, an underage survivor of sexual violence who challenged a…
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Sex workers go visa, visa!
It is 6pm at Zalewa, a lively trading centre in Nemo District which is forked between Malawi’s most prominent cross-border…
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Feature
Beware of bullies online
Social media connects people, creating a free market of ideas. However, a bad idea by a 40-year-old man pretending to…
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Feature
Condoms or after pills?
Malawi could be a sick nation where pills fly off the shelves as drugstores fast displace groceries in towns and…
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Development
Councils’ hands off mining
For decades, mentions of Malawi gold referred more to tobacco and illicit hemp than the precious stones that have triggered…
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Feature
Gold diggers go bananas
In gold panning sites, extracting gold is about digging than filling pits. The pits left by gold diggers from within…
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