Weekend Investigate
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Tackling latent TB in prisons
Mass screening held at Chichiri Prison in the past fortnight has indicated how skin tests detect TB cases likely to…
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Joy as Makwasa elderly regain sight
Imagine you are working in your maize field and suddenly you feel like there is sand in your eyes. You…
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Phalombe’s lessons of survival
Cyclone Idai hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe hard during last year’s rainy season. Over 2 million people were affected with…
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Turning to familiar foe for water
The power of sunlight goes deeper to tap water for populations that rued abundant sunny days when taps run dry,…
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Dry towns sitting on water vaults
A rush to the rivers below the country’s drying towns bares new promising groundwater levels, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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Hard choices for plastic-free future
Bright Nyasaland quit school when he was in Standard Two, but he has learnt a lot from the world around…
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Saving lions, pride of Malawi
For Monica Katende, now about to complete her secondary school education, stories of Lions the king of the jungle are…
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The lost glory in education standards
A few months ago, a video clip of Malawi’s youngest legislator, Fyness Magonjwa from Machinga, grappling to fluently speak English in…
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Buried in e-waste, Malawi gasps for way out
In most trading centres across Malawi, heaps of unusable electronic devices noiselessly signpost passers-by to the repairers. The stockpiles also…
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Utilising drones to deliver health supplies
New health applications for drones and UAVs are being considered to mitigate logistical problems and make health-care distribution more affordable.…
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