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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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Feature
Mercury poisons our gold
The discovery of gold deposits in Malawi has left hotspots pitted, endangering the environment and human health. Every morning, thousands…
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National News
Neglect dampens gold diggers love story
To many Malawians getting dirty in gold mining sites, the donkey work is a matter of life or death–a promising…
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Feature of the Week
‘I weep for my child, I weep for my land’
JAMES CHAVULA Staff Writer December is no longer for merrymaking in Esnar t Chilimba’s gemstone-adorned homestead at the heart of…
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National News
Tales of Malawi’s gold rush
It is 11am when we arrive in Mtsiriza, the gold-rich hills that adorn Traditional Authority (T/A) Mwansambo’s territory in Nkhotakota…
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National News
Environment under siege,authorities bury their heads
From gold diggers crushed by boulders in the bowels of the earth to yawning pits replacing forested hills, Malawi’s surging…
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Development
One-stop centres on trial
Today is World Day for remembering the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation. Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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Front Page
MBC bias: you reap what you saw
Rants and expulsions without a systemic reset won’t fix MBC, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA reports: In September 2009, Democratic…
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Feature
Bureau takes legal aid to Nkhata Bay
In May this year, murmurs erupted in the interiors of Mzuzu Courthouse when senior resident magistrate Godfrey Nyirenda acquitted three…
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Feature
Elections expose it issues
In Malawi, mentions of Smartmatic technology firm evoke murmurs of elections management devices tagged rigging tools by doubters. However, the…
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