Development

When villagers overpower authorities

Four months ago, Alesi Jonas was a buoyant mother of one living happily in her marital home with a hygienic…

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Uniting to save water

On March 12 2013, residents of Machinjiri and Chirimba townships in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, woke up to another day…

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Banks bridging gender gaps in Malawi

Recognising the hurdles Malawi women meet to access financial services, Gladys Mponda teamed up with nine friends to put together…

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Malawi village rises to protect women’s rights

As Malawi commemorates International Women’s Day this week, under the theme ‘A promise is a promise: Time for action to…

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Cries of displaced children

The impact of conflict on children must be everyone’s concern. Those at Bvumbwe camp cry for warring Thyolo villages to…

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Inside evacuees camp

Chitsanzo Kasalika of Kandulu Village, Traditional Authority Ndindi in Salima, will never forget the dawn on January 6 this year.…

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When bars are home to toddlers

Juliana is barely four years old. She lives at Msungwi Trading Centre in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. At her age, she…

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Malawi roads crying out for help

The rainy season in Malawi has left most of the roads potholed and almost unusable. The situation puts engineering into…

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Circles restoring Malawi’s women rights

It was supposed to be a thing of the past in Malawi. After all, examples, including Herbert Mankhwala’s hacking the…

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Easing rural access to ICT

Johnson Sembo, 28, did the unthinkable when he left Mzuzu City in northern Malawi for his village to acquire information…

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