Hope for Mchinji villagers
At the tranquil Tongozala Village, Traditional Authority Mkanda in Mchinji, young learners clamour playfully around a school compound, plastic cups...
Water for safe schools
In the heart of Chimkanda Village, nestled away from the hustle and bustle of Blantyre City, lies Chitole Primary School....
Sanitation for disrupted schools
Unicef delivers water, sanitation and hygiene supplies as schools reopen after Cyclone Freddy, writes freelance journalist JACK MCBRAMS When Cyclone...
The elderly feel Covid threat
When news broke that Covid-19 had been detected in Malawi, older people were gripped by fear. The fear was justified...
Child protection in emergencies
Faced with a crisis that would potentially infringe on the rights of children in evacuation camps, United Nations Children’s Fund...
Child protection in emergencies
Faced with a crisis that would potentially infringe on the rights of children in evacuation camps, United Nations Children’s Fund...
We’ve no time to waste
Schooling continues at Chumani Primary School in Mulanje District as classes house families displaced by Cyclone Freddy, freelance journalist JACK...
Malawians search mud for bodies as cyclone eases
Lacking sniffer dogs and armed just with shovels, rescuers in storm-ravaged Malawi on Thursday made a grim hunt for buried...
Unicef works to defeat cholera
When severe storms hit Malemia Village in Nchalo, Chikwawa earlier this year, the muddy pit toilets collapsed. Soon after, a...
Chalamanda finds TikTok fame at 92
At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn’t even own a smartphone. And yet the Malawian...
Old bike and farm motor light up Mzimba village
Fifteen years ago, when darkness used to fall in Yobe Nkosi, a remote village in Mzimba, children did their school...
Mobile lessons ease access to health care
In most rural parts of Malawi, sick villagers have to walk several kilometres to the nearest hospital, in the process...
What’s in world’s first 3D-printed school?
When Malawians in Mcheza Village woke up on November 26 last year, they were in awe of a new structure...
Covid steals tobacco farmers’ big dreams
During his 15 years as a Malawian tobacco farmer, Boniface Namate has had to overcome many difficulties growing the plant...
Masauko Chipembere: Music leads him home
Masauko Chpembere is Malawian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Los Angeles at a time when his parents were in political...
Receding lake exposes cost of climate change
Just four months ago, the fishing harbour at Kachulu on the western shores of Lake Chilwa in Zomba was...
Beyond Chavura’s rape
I was appalled, rather bemused, by the general response to Mwiza Chavura’s song Rape. The general consensus, by activists and the...
Mireille twayigira: the rwandese refugee now medical doctor
Mireille Twayigira was barely three years old when her father was killed in the genocide that riddled Rwanda and...
Quietly confident
There is something eerily self-effacing about Francis Phiri; some enigma hinged between an unassuming demeanour, a self-assurance and a...
Women’s group warms scholars
Over 70 women nationwide, have teamed up to raise resources to buy sweaters for primary school pupils to keep...
