Development
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Chief backs women’s land rights
In Malawi, women constitute about 70 percent of the agriculture workforce, but the World Bank reports that only 24 percent…
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Community fund brings hope to GBV survivors
Anna Salima, 24, has painful memories of her first marriage. It only took her a week to realise that she…
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Time to reform our prisons
This November, Malawi Parliament will discuss the long-overdue Correctional Services Bill, formerly the Prisons Bill. The mystery surrounding this important…
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Irrigation liberates women
When her husband died in 2014, Rosta Nyapeliwa instantly became a breadwinner for a family of seven. The subsistent farmer,…
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Climate crisis pushes the poor into poverty trap
Like most of the worst hit survivors of Storm Ana in southern Malawi, Pilirani Mailosi, 34, fled with only the…
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Drought: Humanity at crossroads
More than 10 million people have died due to recurrent drought in the past century, the UN reports. The global…
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Nothing goes to waste
In Malawi, one cannot pass cities, towns, districts and markets without bumping into heaps of waste. The widespread breakdown in…
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Mental first aid for flood survivors
When Tropical Storm Ana struck southern Malawi in January, Aluvinesi Daimoni’s legs froze in surging water and she feared for…
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Economic empowerment to end gender-based violence
When Daphres Chirwa from Maganjira Chirwa Village, Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba, separated from her husband after “all love…
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Sad tales of boat rides
At 39, Andrew Chimwayo is widowed after losing his wife and three children died in a tragic boat ride. For…
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Police embrace inclusion
Malawi Police Service has surmounted an era of systemic discrimination to incorporate persons with albinism in its ranks, writes our…
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Solar: Solution to power blackouts?
Malawi continues to struggle with persistent power outages while sitting on great potential to be an energy self-sufficient country. Apart…
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Social cash transfer: Women’s pin code to economic independence
The story of 32-year-old Rose Mulenga from Mwayiweyu Village in Senior Chief Mwilang’ombe in Karonga is one of life-changing experience.…
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Making women-headed families food-secure
Give us this day our daily bread” used to be a daily prayer for 49-year-old Zione Maron from Kagunda Village,…
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Rebuilding lives after floods
With meagre earnings from piecework, Moses Peter, 38, from Kalima Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya in Chikwawa struggled to provide…
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Teveta courts private sector on youth unemployment
Mercy Banda, not her real name, has struggled to find employment after graduating in 2017 with a Diploma in Food…
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Justice for the forgotten
Daniel Liyaya Gama, a kabaza bicycle taxi operator from Mtambalala Village in Kasungu, spent five months at Kasungu Prison after…
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Meals for young dreamers
During school days, Rose Saidi, a mother of four, leaves home as early as 3 am. Her task is simple:…
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Long walk to end child marriages
Chikondi Banda envied her peers who had smartphones and money from their boyfriends. At the age of 14, the girl…
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Fishers laud beach clinics
Between 2019 and 2020, Amin Sanudi from Makawa Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mponda in Mangochi battled with bilharzia. The 39-year-old…
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