Development

Workplace sexual harassment persists

Upon joining a new workplace, many recruits look up to their bosses as top professionals to emulate. In their excitement,…

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Chief backs women’s land rights

In Malawi, women constitute about 70 percent of the agriculture workforce, but the World Bank reports that only 24 percent…

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Community fund brings hope to GBV survivors

Anna Salima, 24, has painful memories of her first marriage. It only took her a week to realise that she…

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Time to reform our prisons

This November, Malawi Parliament will discuss the long-overdue Correctional Services Bill, formerly the Prisons Bill. The mystery surrounding this important…

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Irrigation liberates women

When her husband died in 2014, Rosta Nyapeliwa instantly became a breadwinner for a family of seven. The subsistent farmer,…

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Climate crisis pushes the poor into poverty trap

Like most of the worst hit survivors of Storm Ana in southern Malawi, Pilirani Mailosi, 34, fled with only the…

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Drought: Humanity at crossroads

More than 10 million people have died due to recurrent drought in the past century, the UN reports. The global…

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Nothing goes to waste

In Malawi, one cannot pass cities, towns, districts and markets without bumping into heaps of waste. The widespread breakdown in…

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Mental first aid for flood survivors

When Tropical Storm Ana struck southern Malawi in January, Aluvinesi Daimoni’s legs froze in surging water and she feared for…

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Economic empowerment to end gender-based violence

When Daphres Chirwa from Maganjira Chirwa Village, Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba, separated from her husband after “all love…

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