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Feature
High-yielding rice for dry times
Rice yields in Malawi keep dwindling as rainy months get fewer. For farmers surrounding the wetlands, the shrinking rainy season,…
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Editors Pick
Stopping Aids before it kills
It is 11.20am when we venture into the snaky corridors of Nsanje District Hospital, formerly a refugee camp for Mozambicans…
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Health
Mental illness is no barrier
Blessings Chipeta wants you to know that it is exhausting to fight a war inside your head every day, but…
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1.4m biking dangerously
Urban dwellers mostly define transportation in terms of engine power. But the greatest share of personal needs are met by…
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National News
Nsanje women’s ward gets facelift
Doctors without Borders on Wednesday handed over a rapid screening unit and refurbished the female ward at Nsanje District Hospital.…
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Business News
Mkango rare earth mine to open in 2024
Mkango Resources Limited, a mining firm exploring rare earths at Songwe Hills in Phalombe, has unveiled plans to start…
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Q & A
Averting Lake Chilwa’s new low
Malawi’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) committee oversees conservation efforts in the hugely deforested Mulanje Mountain and Lake Chilwa, a wetland…
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United for girls and women
Sexual attacks and gender-based against women and girls in Malawi put them at risk of HIV infection. At worst, some…
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Malaria vaccine on trial
It’s World Malaria Day. Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA unpacks malaria vaccines on trial in 11 districts. It is a…
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Feature
Delivering hope in crowded camps
Miriam Demba is expecting her third baby at Mileme Camp in Phalombe. She is among 125 000 Malawians displaced by…
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National News
Coordinate floods response
The United Nations (UN) resident coordinator Maria Jose Torres Macho has asked organisations to leave no one behind in the…
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When strangers become family
When the waters came in the dead of the night, 52-year-old grandmother Esnath Makumbi hardly had time to react. She…
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Feature
Rising from tragedy
Sweltering sunshine had just returned to the Shire Valley when we met Grace Bragiyo in her maize field where floods…
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National News
Aid sidesteps rural camps
Heavy rains that have displaced 125 000 people in southern Malawi have left the Shire Valley inundated by vehicles ferrying…
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Feature
Electronic village registers on trial
Harold Keliyasi is neither famous nor powerful, but he counts. On February 13, the baby, just a month-old, joined nearly…
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Chill
In father’s name
Tattoos are almost everything to people with heartfelt emotional connections. And ‘Du Jr’, reads one on Doreen Chisiza’s left biceps.…
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Feature
Disease tests made quicker
It is 3.30pm when we arrive at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe and the end of Chawanangwa Khuwi’s day at…
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Feature
Theatre bares sanitation gaps
It is sunny in Mpemba on the south western margins of Blantyre City. Some 10 young people are dancing in…
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‘Malawi needs real energy solutions’
In August, Malawi adopted a new energy policy in line with sustainable development goals to ensure access to affordable, reliable,…
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Making land laws work
Oliva Lale’s face said it all. The mother of four smiled broadly as she became one of the first Malawians…
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