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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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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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