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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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Small stipends, huge transformation
Poverty in Malawi has worn many faces, manifesting itself in such things as hunger, poor housing, limited schooling and cycles…
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Lighting the waywith solar training
It is 10 am in Mtima Village, Traditional Authority Mkagula in Zomba District. Women stand in a circle, surrounding a…
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Local leaders promote children’s welfare
Tchapo Tchapo’s dream of becoming a medical doctor was fading away as his guardians failed to keep him in school.…
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