Weekend Investigate
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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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Is Malawi cotton on road to Burkina Faso?
Malawi’s cotton once rose to a record production of 100 000 metric tonnes (MT) per year some seven years ago.…
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Bridging extension gap with videos
For close to a decade, Phemiya Mpombwe has been farming rice in Chiumbuzo Village in T/A Kaduya’s area in Phalombe.…
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Malawi on course to end Aids, but…
For the man we have disguised as Amon Maliseni to conceal his family’s identity, the virus is not the end…
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Stopping Aids before it kills
It is 11.20am when we venture into the snaky corridors of Nsanje District Hospital, formerly a refugee camp for Mozambicans…
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