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Feature
Sunlight waters dry farmland
Solar mini-grids for irrigation help starving farmers beat water scarcity, hunger and poverty made worse by climate change, our Staff…
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Plastics polluting tourist spots
On a sweltering morning in Salima, we saw how growing thirst for water packaged in plastic bottles is slowly polluting…
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Weekend Investigate
Turning to familiar foe for water
The power of sunlight goes deeper to tap water for populations that rued abundant sunny days when taps run dry,…
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Environment
Mango trees burn as forests wane
In Mulanje West, we saw people felling mango trees one by one to burn bricks. According to locals, the rush…
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Q & A
Energising democracy
Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) is running a social accountability initiative in Malawi, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, South Africa and Zambia to…
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Development
Water for expanding cities
As the dry season sets in, Blantyre City residents are increasingly waking up to dry taps or weak trickles. Angela…
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Front Page
Dry towns sitting on water vaults
A rush to the rivers below the country’s drying towns bares new promising groundwater levels, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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Feature
‘You’ll never be forgotten’
You will never be forgotten! Brigadier Tom Bateman proclaimed this on Monday as he ushered Prince Harry to lay a…
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Feature
Living by example, no plastics
Water packaged in plastic bottles typifies Malawi’s conference culture. Increasingly, participants of such meetings sip bottled water to keep in…
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Front Page
Hard choices for plastic-free future
Bright Nyasaland quit school when he was in Standard Two, but he has learnt a lot from the world around…
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Feature
What’s burning with plastics?
It is 5am in Machinjiri Township on the eastern side of Blantyre and the morning breeze is fouled by fumes…
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Entertainment News
UNFPA unleashes Nthambi cartoon today
The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency has released an animated series personifying agonies of Malawian girls carrying a…
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Feature
Lessons from coal rails
Families living on graphite-rich clay in Malingunde, Lilongwe, have learnt from communities along Vale Logistics’ railway in Mwanza what not…
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Feature
UN experts for coal-free future
As Malawi switches to coal seams to boost its on-off electricity supply, experts have warned that this is not a…
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Front Page
Buried in e-waste, Malawi gasps for way out
In most trading centres across Malawi, heaps of unusable electronic devices noiselessly signpost passers-by to the repairers. The stockpiles also…
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Feature
Girls biking to learn
At Konzere in Chikwawa, it is not uncommon to see a teen girl with a baby saddling on her back.…
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Feature
Families on graphite rocks
It is 5.10pm and Zaliyele Yesaya, 65, is selling petrol to motorcyclists shuttling on a dusty road that splits Kumalindi…
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Editors Pick
850 soldiers ready for DRC challenge
The Malawi Defence Force (MDF) has completed training 850 peacekeepers destined for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this month. The…
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Business News
Revised mining law misses May target
The Malawi Government is racing against time to reap the benefits of the revised Mines and Minerals Act, having failed…
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Editors Pick
Malawi on course to end Aids, but…
For the man we have disguised as Amon Maliseni to conceal his family’s identity, the virus is not the end…
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