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Environment
Malawi wins new climate funds
Malawi is among nine countries in the frame to benefit from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) worth about K350 billion…
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Q & A
Restoring patriotism and professionalism
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, High Court Judge Chifundo Kachale, was among the speakers to watch at the Anti-Corruption Bureau…
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Health
Everyone counts in HIV fight
Today is the World Aids. With only eight years left before the 2030 goal of ending Aids as a global…
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Feature
Health workers tackle GBV
To kick-start the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULa highlights how expanding outpatient…
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Education
From uncertainty to university
In 2020, Medson Kayuni nearly dropped out of school as his parents struggled to pay his tuition at Mhuju Community…
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Feature
Lirangwe waves bye to erratic water supply
Lirangwe is an emerging trading centre nearly 30 kilometres north of Blantyre City. From their drawing boards in the commercial…
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Health
Machinga opens elders’ clinic
They are old, frail and sickly. They no longer work like they did when they were energetic, but have to…
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Education
Princess meets her model
There is something about nurses and doctors that motivates Princess Chamasowa to work hard in school. For the 12-year-old Standard…
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Feature
Desks keep Jacquie smiling
Jacqueline Kubalasa was born with paralysed legs 22 years ago, but this has not smothered her burning desire to learn.…
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Development
Drought: Humanity at crossroads
More than 10 million people have died due to recurrent drought in the past century, the UN reports. The global…
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Front Page
Phalombe residents bid bye to deadly delays
From traditional leaders to locals, excitement and hope have engulfed people of Phalombe following the opening of the first district…
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Development
Mental first aid for flood survivors
When Tropical Storm Ana struck southern Malawi in January, Aluvinesi Daimoni’s legs froze in surging water and she feared for…
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Feature
Why Alefa keeps learning amid Covid
The discovery of the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2019 left Alefa Banda confident that it was too remote a threat…
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Feature
Social cash transfers keep learners in school
Florence Chinang’ombe has struggled to raise four children unaided since her husband migrated to South Africa in 2002. “The man…
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Health
Tracking antibiotic-resistant germs
In Malawi’s overwhelmed hospitals, doctors are worried about growing resistance to antibiotics, the drugs used to treat deadly bacterial diseases…
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Weekend Investigate
As Covid evolves, scientists split the difference
The fast-changing Covid-19 pandemic has left scientists globally with no time to blink. At the National HIV Reference Laboratory in…
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Feature
Chief rallies call against malnutrition
It is not for nothing that village head Magwira of Thyolo is a happy community leader. “If you go door…
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Feature
Mulanje young people wrestle malnutrition
Charles Yohane is a young farmer learning on the job. The 17-year-old boy of Kukada Village, Traditional Authority Mkanda in…
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Feature
Data powers community race against malnutrition
Data counts in every decision we make,” says Eunice Chisale, nutrition promoter for Chigwirizano and Chisomo care groups in Nkusa…
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Feature
‘Dad is my best friend’
Gift Kamfosi is the first teacher of his two daughters. The 34-year-old rice vendor from Mkwepu Village in Phalombe is…
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