Feature of the Week
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‘we are people too, we deserve love’
In this special interview, Our Rewrites Editor MCDONALD BAMUSI catches up with a 23-year-old Malawian transgender to discuss life of…
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Eliminating hunger with solar-powered irrigation
As Songani River in Zomba dried up in 2015, Kenneth Sanudi’s hope of a harvest faded. The 59-year-old had failed…
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Trapped in eternal poverty?
Today, millions of Malawians remain trapped in poverty; but had the aspirations of Malawians outlined in Vision 2020 in March…
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Improving infrastructure for quality childhood development
The Malawi Government adopted early childhood development (ECD) to drive access to nutrition and protection as well as stimulate healthy…
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Promoting education amid disasters
Over the years, pupils at Phanga Catholic Primary School in Nsanje have found it hard to learn during the rainy…
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Empowering Malawi sex workers
Earning a living as a sex worker is popular among some young women in Malawi. At night, streets in the…
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Water improves health care
Grey Betha, a midwife technician at Osiyana Health Centre in Nsanje, knows how difficult it is to work in a…
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‘My child is a full citizen’
Charity John had two names in mind when she went to deliver her first child at Phalombe Health Centre. The…
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Parents spur homeschooling
A parent with basic literacy skills is more likely to guide children in their academic journey than one without any…
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Soft bites for solid starts
I t is 9am and Elizabeth Momba is preparing soft porridge for a baby napping on the veranda of her…
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Peacekeepers get surgical facility
The 13th Malawi Battalion (Malbatt) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has acquired mobile surgical equipment as rebels…
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Usisya Health Centre cries
Rosevelt Njeghenje, a clinical officer-in-charge of Usisya Health Centre in Nkhata Bay North, breaks down when discussing the challenges haunting…
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Girls biking to school
Jinesi Chinseswa, from Kaponda Village in Lilongwe, learns at Mlomba Community Day Secondary School n(CDSS), 10 kilometres away. “I often…
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From MBC to the world
In February 1983, a 25-year-old presenter was introduced to MBC staff at Chichiri Broadcasting House (BH) in Blantyre. He was…
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ECD caregivers left behind
Most of them are not qualified, but trusted by their communities to prepare children for lifelong learning. The forgotten volunteers’…
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Villages unite to make Pasani Hill green again
Communities around Pasani Hill in Mulanje have found meaning in planting trees under whose shade they do not expect to…
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Fast-tracking Megafarms
During the 2020 presidential campaign, the governing Tonse Alliance promised to establish megafarms across the country to boost agricultural production…
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Taming cholera amidst Covid-19, polio outbreaks
In April this year, 30-year-old Thoko Gawani (not her real name) suffered a bout of diarrhoea. Since she had to…
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Tobacco threat to environment
The world marks World No Tobacco Day on May 31 every year to raise awareness of the negative health, social,…
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Covid jab meets routine vaccines
On a sunny morning, two community health workers are hard at work under a leafy tree in the middle of…
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