Development

Studying towards ending hunger

Standing close to a maize field, Grace Joseph, with the aid of a flip chart, confidently explains how smallholder farmers…

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A new way of travelling: Adjusting to life in a pandemic

What do you think of carrying whenever you have to travel? Luggage of course, a passport and your travel documents…

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Colonial law penalises rape victims

In February, Ivy was happy when a man was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for repeatedly defiling her since 2019.…

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Urban poor’s sanitation crisis

Two months ago, torrents that led to floods battered homes and latrines to the ground in Salisbury Township in Mzuzu.…

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Transforming lives through goat farming

Like many farmers in the country, Custom Katungwe, 54, from Mwalero Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kalembo in Balaka District believes…

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For women who feed Africa

Women form the backbone of rural economies, growing over two-thirds of food for Africa’s 1.2 billion people. From a subsistence…

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‘This paper exudes peace’

Land is nearly everything for most Malawians as the population has surged from 13 million to 18.4 million in the…

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Women still struggling to own land

When she lost her husband in 2015, Agnes Joseph, 35, from Denje Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mwansambo…

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Youths’ voices amid Covid

For Chisomo Banda, 23, and many of her friends in Lilongwe, news about Covid-19 was just like a rumour of…

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Sexual violence stuns Mzimba

It was a frank talk which inevitably turned emotional. Who would want their child traded for marriage just for survival?…

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