Development
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Zomba communities learn of women’s rights
Communities of group village head Kumbwani and sub-Traditional Authority Mkagula in Zomba were ignorant of women’s sexual and reproductive health…
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Giving vulnerable people better housing
For over three years, Simeon Tigone has been experiencing a hard-life in his single-room grass-thatched house in Lembani Village, T/A…
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Motorcycles might be the solution
As the country continues searching for a means to overcome the fuel crisis, it appears the use of four-cylinder vehicles…
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Child labour laws: Any use in Malawi?
The figures are disturbing—88.9 percent of children in the age group 5-14 work in the agricultural sector, most of them…
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Searching for survival in a changing climate
When in Nsanje, it is easy to note that sorghum is to the district what rice is to Karonga. The…
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Radio clubs simplify farming technology
 Participatory approaches to radio listening and content generation through the radio listening clubs (RLC) are an effective tool in…
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ActionAid rehabilitates earthquake victim
Margaret Kabaghe, 75, was in dire need of help after the December 2009 earthquake displaced her from her home in…
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Telecentres: Connecting rural people to the modern world
It is break time. Some students who live in villages surrounding Goliati Trading Centre in Thyolo sit around modern books…
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Fears of looming hunger
Ethel Chalamanda, 68, sits on her veranda in Ndogola Village, T/A Kapeni in Chigumula, pain and hopelessness written all over…
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Easing hunger in the Lower Shire
At first, it appeared bizarre that Eliza Diyala, 78, was speaking to herself, repeatedly saying: “We have been saved!†as…
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Malawi waiting for disaster to happen
What if the flood gates of heaven finally opened like never before in the disaster prone areas of Southern Malawi…
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Solar pumps help rural communities fight poverty
A family meeting that took place in one of the populous townships in Lilongwe on a chilly Sunday afternoon in…
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Scramble for KIA land
A few months ago, the world population hit seven billion. Analysts described this as an indication the world population is…
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July 20: The bloody price of freedom
When Malawi’s multiparty icon the late Chakufwa Tom Chihana said in the early 1990s that he was ready to die…
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