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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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Feature of the Week
‘My child is a full citizen’
Charity John had two names in mind when she went to deliver her first child at Phalombe Health Centre. The…
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Health
Keeping vaccines chilled
Sights of blue cold boxes decked by the doorstep welcome you to the district vaccine store at Lilongwe District Health…
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Health
What keeps Covid jabs cool?
Florence Kamwendo became a community health worker in 1994, two years after Malawi wiped out polio by vaccinating every child…
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Health
Displaced children face malnutrition
March 10 was an extraordinary day for Dona Peter, who was six-month pregnant when she fled severe floods caused by…
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Health
Border community adopts Covid jab
The global spread of Covid-19 illustrates how contagious infections can cross borders at the speed people and goods move. The…
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Health
Malawi ready for cholera vaccination
Malawi has received 1.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine from the Global Emergency Stockpile for the first round of…
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Feature
HSAs are backbone of polio fight
Misozi Bisayi, 39, feels lucky that her last-born son, Joseph, retook polio vaccine at home two months after Malawi confirmed…
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Feature of the Week
UNDP responds to Storm Ana
Since January 24, whirlwinds freely whistle past rubble in Kaseche Village, Traditional Authority Lundu in Chikwawa. Four months ago, devastating…
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Health
Shoe doctor wants every child vaccinated
Malawi’s first wild poliovirus case in 30 years has left health workers racing against time to vaccinate every child aged…
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Environment
Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10…
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Environment
Waning forests up in smoke
alawi is racing against time to save fast-vanishing trees, with half of its forest cover gone up in smoke due…
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Feature of the Week
Beyond rice and lights
Rice farmer Bryony Mywanga of Yembe Trading Centre in Karonga shines a light on the benefits of a new rice…
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Feature
Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10…
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Development
Floods signal bumper yields
It is a hot Saturday morning nearly a month after floods washed Fanny Mtopa’s knee-high maize crop into Mwanza River.…
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National News
Mtambo meets Asian community Thursday
Representatives of the Asian Business Community have petitioned Minister of National Unity Timothy Mtambo to tackle a rising racist tone…
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Development
Storm horror dials up calls for relief
Sarah Bakali, 31, agonises about the night she lost her four-year-old daughter, Abigail, to a devastating flood that flattened her…
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National News
Mtambo warns against xenophobic stereotypes
The Ministry of National Unity Timothy Mtambo has appealed against surging discriminatory verbal attacks on Malawians of Asian origin amid…
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Weekend Investigate
Solar energy for sustained water supply
When Edmond Hami and his family shifted to Mzuzu in 2020, they endured nightmare Sundays as blackouts hit the northern…
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National News
Questions hang over Kapichira power outage
Supposedly mistimed repairs of floodgates at Kapichira Power Station have brought Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) into question for the loss…
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