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Communities reap 24 years of change
Mtisunge Matika’s future looked uncertain when she completed secondary education aged 17 in 2018. “I didn’t think much about the…
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Group cash transfers for disaster preparedness
Florida Kunyambo, a widowed mother in Nsusa Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kapeni in Blantyre, shares a fragile hillside home with…
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Red Cross entrenches anticipatory action’
The destruction caused by Cyclone Freddy cuts deep into Mandawala and Mandota villages, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kaduya, in Phalombe District.…
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Women paint valley green
When rain failed last year, women in Banana Village, Traditional Authority Jalavikuwa in Mzimba District, refused to surrender. Armed with…
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Gold mining poisons villages
Liviri River in Kasungu District does not begin as a harbinger of death. Its journey starts with clean flow from…
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Commissions of inquiry, politics of forgotten truths
Commissions of Inquiry in Malawi illustrate both the potential for accountability and the recurring failure of political will: some have…
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Kasungu’s man of gold
A pastor has become one of the movers and shakers in Malawi’s unregulated gold mining, which has cost a dozen…
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Animal droppings spur fish farming
Leonard Kavalo Banda is a famous fish farmer in Chipumulo area, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba District. The…
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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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Tablets transform early learning
DIGITAL LEARNING On a cloudy Monday morning, Standard Four learners at Mwandama Primary School in Zomba queue outside a classroom…
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