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‘Hypertension isn’t witchcraft’
For months, group village head Penembe’s 90-year-old mother, Mezinati Laison gasped for breath. Next, tongues started wagging in the rural…
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‘The youth don’t eat politics’
The stalling of Mtowe Community Technical College in Nsanje District exemplifies how politics poisons the national development agenda, our Staff…
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Are cops waging Chisale’s wars?
Malawians commemorate the ceremonial birthday of the founding president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, every May 14. However, the bank holiday last…
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School girls sleep in maize mills
Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA details how a government’s top-down initiative has let down girls at Nyamadzere Community Day Secondary…
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Pupils share mental health tips
For a long time, Khumbo Samson, 12, kept quiet. At her former school in Lilongwe, she was beaten and had…
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Rising beyond representation
Malawi launches Her Rise Women executive leadership programme, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) communications specialist BLESSINGS PHUMISA reports. In Malawi,…
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‘You are not passive observers’
Faced with unsuccessful job hunting and lack of capital, concerned young people in Mangochi District say they find it unfair…
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Schools under siege
At Kafulu Primary School in Area 22 in Lilongwe, scratched graffiti stretching across classroom blocks and the school perimeter welcomes…
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Floating islands of Chia Lagoon
Every morning Shaban Mtila pushes his motorboat into Chia Lagoon in Nkhotakota District, it meets resistance not from harsh winds…
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Vaccines at birth give babies a healthy start
The morning sun had barely settled over Kukalanga Health Centre, Traditional Authority Chimwala in Mangochi, when Rose Dinasi, 40, stepped…
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