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Boys living dangerously
Boys, as young as 13, have found a new hobby: buying cheap sex from elderly commercial sex workers. ALBERT…
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Pains of Chifuniro
At the age of five, Chifuniro lives in pain and can hardly walk. She is physically challenged, but her disability…
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Empowering youths through technical skills
The first time you meet Tionge Nyirenda (23) with a welding machine in her hand, you would think she…
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Costing Malawi’s child brides
For every step forward, Malawi seems to be moving two in reverse on ending child marriages. Figures from the…
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When communities demand health rights
Maziko Matemba, executive director for Health and Rights Education Programme (Hrep), says supporting organisations that use community approach is…
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Nipping HIV and Aids in the bud
HIV and Aids capitalises on human fear, stigma and discrimination to cause its havoc in communities. EPHRAIM NYONDO writes…
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Paris climate deal: key points at a glance
The goal of 1.5 C is a big leap below the 2C agreed six years ago in Copenhagen. Here…
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What’s in the figure 90-90-90?
There is a new HIV and Aids Campaign in town. It is called 90-90-90. But what is the campaign…
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Tales of street kid vending
It is 8pm in Mzuzu City. While the market area is dead silent and few motorists are on the…
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The gathering mining storm
Governed by an obsolete 1981 mining law and worsened by absence of a legislation on accessing public information, the…
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Hunger in the midst of abundance
In a rural setting of Matewele Village in Mangochi, owning a house roofed with iron sheets is a sign…
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What, just 16 days?
For 16 days from November 25 to December 10, Malawi observed the annual 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based-Violence…
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Selective human rights
Today is World Human Rights Day. In commemorating the day, FATSANI GUNYA looks at how government offices at Capital…
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Towards HIV and Aids-free generation
With confidence that his body is HIV-free, a virus that causes Aids, Ibrahim Bokosi (52) of Nkhonya Village, Traditional Authority…
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Celebrating teachers
When Egrita Ndala sat for Form Four mock examinations at Mlanda Girls Secondary School in Ntcheu in April 1992,…
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Creating empowered citizenry with civic education
Back in 2012, when Pan African Civic Educators Network (Pacent) launched a multi-council project that aims at empowering the…
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Lack of peace a thorn in the home
From November 25 to December 10, Malawi joins the world in commemorating the 16 days of Activism under the…
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North’s water crisis in perspective
For the first time since she settled in Mchengautuwa Township in Mzuzu in 2012, Witness Mkandawire is waking up at…
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Waiting for Santa at COP21
It is quite chilly and windy in Paris but that is expected. A few weeks after the terror attacks that…
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Public toilet for K50
Living in a city should be a source of pride. However, Selemani Katundu, a resident of Mbayani Township in…
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