Environment
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Putting out fishy bulbs
Ending the ills of fishing bulbs on the waters of Lake Malawi calls for decisive collective effort. JAMES CHAVULA…
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Solution to Nsanje floods
Poverty and disasters can be deadly bedfellows. The two are directly linked. Several reasons account for this. First, the poor…
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Hail climate information centres
Experts have tipped people in disaster-prone districts to make use of climate information centres that have been established in their…
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Malawi lobbies for climate financing at COP 21
Non-governmental organisations of climate change have called on world leaders to fulfill their commitment of providing climate financing to…
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Lost treasure in genetic resources
Although Malawi is signatory to protocols to protect genetic resources, ignorance is leading to loss of the natural wealth.…
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Eliminating open defecation in CZ
Not so long ago, walking along Ntayamwana and Mwanje river banks in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mpama in Chiradzulu, rancid…
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Sadc CSOs want strong action on climate change
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have requested governments in the region to be…
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Wildfires contribute greatly to global warming
Wildfires produce a witch’s brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. A range of…
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Luppen for smarter Lilongwe settlements
The Lilongwe Urban Poor People Network (Luppen) coordinator Harry Kamba says waste management is key to a clean and healthy…
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CSOs want climate adaptation discussed at Paris COP 21
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country, led by the Civil Society Network of Climate Change (Cisonecc), have underlined that…
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Protecting forests to fight climate change effects
Malawi is taking active steps towards implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) policy process on reducing…
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Politicians blamed for Mt. Mulanje degradation
WATIPASO MZUNGU JNR Traditional leaders in Phalombe and Mulanje have accused politicians of perpetuating lawlessness in the harvesting of cedar…
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Cisonecc draws climate change lessons from Kenya
The Civil Society Network on Climate Change (Cisonecc) says their trip to Nairobi, Kenya during the 9th International Conference on…
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Guard the environment—communities advised
Malawi Government has called on people living in the Lake Chilwa Basin to save the lake from drying up again…
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Cadecom in disaster mitigation project
The Catholic Development Commission in Malawi (Cadecom) recently embarked on a community participatory low-cost disaster mitigation and water and…
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Faith leaders encourage tree planting to save environment
Faith leaders in Thyolo have blamed the floods Malawi experienced this year on reckless tree cutting. The floods displaced thousands…
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Government warns on Kongwe Forest Reserve encroachment
Government has asked people surrounding Kongwe Forest Reserve to stop encroachment on the reserve in Dowa. This was said during…
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Sanitation woes hit informal markets
For Chisomo Chanza, a vegetable seller at Zion Market in Chimwankhunda, Blantyre, everyday is a business day. She sets her…
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Taking law to the people
Since 2004, Malawi has enacted many laws aimed at protecting women in a drive to achieve gender equity and equality.…
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