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Banking on youth business
At the age of 27, a typical youthful Malawian is expected to be searching for employment or settling into a…
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Minister commissions17-yr-old health post
Lisa Osman, 29, of Traditional Authority Malili in Lilongwe has long struggled to access health services at the nearest public…
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Strawberries of Mount Zomba
Travelling on the meandering narrow tarmac up the peak of Zomba Plateau, groups of traders are seen selling strawberries fresh…
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Wakisa enjoys PLSCE stardom
21 Wakisa Ngosi, a 13-year-old boy raised by a widow, has come second in this year’s Primary School Leaving Certificate…
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Cyclone survivors plant again
Just three weeks before Esther Wedson, 40, harvested her maize, Cyclone Freddy triggered landslides from Mulanje Mountain that buried her…
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‘Every birth-related death tells a story’
Flossie Maloya could not wait to have her first baby at Chikwawa District Hospital in May, but she needed a…
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Village clinics ease nutrition care
Two months ago, Gladys Ojezi walked at least 15 kilometres(km) to Mkumba Health Centre in Mangochi when her two-year-old baby…
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Deadly wait for climate fund
Nearly five months after the world’s longest-lasting cyclone affected more than 2.2 million people in Malawi’s Southern Region, Thokozani Lifa…
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Tree farming for green bucks
Stella Chikhofi’s family of nine in Gochi Village, Ntcheu District, uses firewood and charcoal for cooking. This is the plight…
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Recycling Salima trash piles
Abreakdown in waste management affects the environment and human health in cities and towns. Nearly all the urban centres in…
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My certificate says: ‘Hands off our land’
For Mary Dansa, the land around her house near Chinseu Trading Centre, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mlumbe in Zomba, is almost…
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Mythical snake helps raise climate awareness
Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action,…
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People Driving Vaccines in Communities.
In Ntchisi, a central district of Malawi, just one and half hour drive from the capital Lilongwe, Joshua Mwenda is…
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Ex-refugee preaches peace
A doctor who lost her father, mother and sister in the Rwandan Genocide is telling her story to make the…
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Science brings back bananas
Almost a decade ago, Charles Nkonga of Bvumbwe in Thyolo was worried about the future of his banana-growing family. The…
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Babies behind barbed wire
It is Tuesday morning and four innocent babies can be seen in the hands of women inmates at Blantyre Prison.…
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Study exposes Ndirande toxic air
Researchers studying fuel use for cooking in Malawi and Kenya have found residents in informal settlements such as Ndirande, Blantyre…
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Girls on scholarships dream again
When Ellen Tembo was selected to Mpatsa Community Day Secondary School in Nsanje, it was bittersweet for her widowed mother.…
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Mwandama dreams big
Mwandama in Zomba is engulfed by tobacco and coffee estates owned by city-based barons, but groundnuts and soya are widely…
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Survivors return to disaster zones
Scaling up the slopes of Soche Hill in Blantyre from Chilobwe Market, the once populous settlement looks deserted with scatters…
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