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Weekend Investigate
Battling to save bananas in Nkhata Bay
Bananas are one of the traditional crops in Nkhata Bay. However, facing extinction due to Banana Bunchy Top Virus, communities…
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Scepticism, reason for voter registration apathy
There has been much talk of the problem of voter registration apathy in the districts where the first phase of…
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Front Page
Illicit trade of tobacco cigarettes threat to jobs
Tobacco industry players meeting in South Africa for the inaugural Africa Tobacco Industry Conference have expressed concern with the rise…
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Business News
K3bn loan to boost macadamia, coffee production
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme…
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Early elections not solution to corruption scourge
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader, Lazarus Chakwera, on Monday called for the resignation of President Peter Mutharika and pressed for…
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No room for political violence, police brutality
Journalism is not a crime, so is supporting a political movement. But in the eyes of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)…
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Corruption has poisoned our traditional leaders
Someone better stop Ngoni chiefs in their tracks before they poison our children and the entire nation with their hate…
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Malawians are not daft, Mr. Vice President
My Kenyan friend Fidel insists that Malawians are daft people. He always mentions what JB did to Malawians as a…
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Challenges remain in natural resources governance
We on the streets this week have lent our ears to our brothers on the continent. We are told that…
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JB should shut up
In August 2015, a survey found that over 40 percent of Malawians believe former president Joyce Banda was responsible for…
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Five things we can learn from ‘Hurricane Callista’
As the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is assessing the ‘damage’ and possibly recovering from last week’s ‘Hurricane Callista’, we…
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What’s wrong with our banks?
Tuesday will go down as one of the worst days for the average banker. Most of the commercial banks in…
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PAC, CSO split should worry us all
The civil society organisation (CSO) movement in the country is dying a slow death and it is time, all right-thinking…
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Cotton industry revival opportunity missed?
Benjamin Button, a movie character played by Brad Pitt, said that “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones…
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Spare Malawians trash music
I am not a huge fan of Malawian music. There are songs I like, tunes or melodies I may find…
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Populist promises won’t take us out of poverty
President Peter Mutharika is good at making promises; empty promises. After failing for the past three years to develop the…
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‘Backlog of murder cases is so high’
The Legal Aid Bureau is a government office mandated to provide legal aid to indigent persons. Over the years, not…
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RBM should name, shame non-remitters of pension funds
“The issue of non-remittance of pension is very challenging,” my Kenyan friend Fidel confessed this week after reports emerged that…
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Chakwera, stop preaching to the choir or disband
A man with conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him…
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‘It takes 10kg of wood to dry 1kg of tobacco’
When John Vidal from The Guardian visited Kasungu in July 2015, this is how he described what he saw: ‘For…
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