Development

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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‘Put health workers first’

Numbers of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Malawi are rapidly rising with a surge in locally transmitted infections. However, healthcare workers…

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Sticky single-use plastics

From thin carrier bags dancing to whistling winds in open markets to many more in the hands of shoppers heading…

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Water crisis amid Covid-19

Life looks normal at Engucwini Health Centre in Mzimba despite the coronavirus outbreak discovered in China last December. There is…

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Covid wipes vital cash inflows

At 51, Patricia Habibu cannot work as hard as she once did when she was younger. With age, her earnings…

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Cushioning farmers from Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic discovered in China last December has disrupted social and economic activities worldwide. In Malawi, where the coronavirus…

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Down with Covid, but…

On June 30, Felix Chisoni returned to Police Secondary School in Zomba to paint decaying school blocks where he learnt…

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Zomba gets resilience boost

Malawi will benefit from a UN-Habitat regional project to build urban populations’ resilience to climate change in South-eastern Africa The…

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Shedding poverty bit by bit

James Kayoyola, 53, is a famous tinsmith in Kachitsa Village, Traditional Authority Kambwiri in Salima. He hammers out watering cans,…

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Covid ruffles hairdos

Five days a week, Pilira Tsambalikagwa walks from the populous Manje Township to Limbe Market to cut people’s hair or…

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