Weekend Investigate
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Adapt or perish: Innovative solutions to changing climate
As countries transition toward climate-resilient sustainable development, the Department of Environmental Affairs in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and…
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Imported charcoal burns forests
Red, blue, yellow, green…but blackish. Such is an array of colours of charcoal bags travellers see on descent from Blantyre…
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Drug resistant TB patients face expulsions
Our Staff Reporter exposes how a group village head expelled her daughter-in-law, a glimpse of discrimination and exclusion of people…
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Fistula treatment: A healing too far
Women left behind because of aftermaths of fistula cry for greater investment to bring treatment closer to those who need…
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Silent sobs of women with fistula
Fistula repair surgeries are liberating women dehumanised by the treatable birth-related condition which leaves them disgraced and discriminated. It is…
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Climate extremes, policy confuse farmers
Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full…
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Malawian villages cope with an extended cholera season
Malawi is currently facing a cholera outbreak and Lilongwe. This is the latest in series of cholera outbreaks across the…
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Fishy, fishy relay race
The scramble for fish in Lake Malawi has reached a fever pitch with traders taking into the water to buy…
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Beating TB resistance 9 pills a day
Navenya’s fightback mirrors the hardships and hopes of Malawians with multi-drug resistant TB, our Features Editor JAMES CHAVULA writes. In…
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Inside a Kangaroo Unit: where tiny babies’ lives are on knife-edge
For 25-year-old Zione Pilirani (not her real name), this was her tender life’s defining moment. She was basking in…
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