Feature
-
Fishing teen girls out of school
Likoma offers vivid lessons why girls under 18 constitute nearly 30 in 100 pregnant women who die while giving birth.…
Read More » -
Bringing justice closer to the people
Family wrangles are no strange thing. It gets even worse for step brothers or sisters. But for Patricia Banda,…
Read More » -
Surviving on mangoes as hunger bites
It is lunchtime, but for four-year-old Janet Mkotole of Ngwerero Village, Traditional Authority Ngwerero in Zomba, the only meal…
Read More » -
Communities team up to preserve environment
Slowly, Chigodi and Napingo hills situated west of Traditional Authority (T/A) Kunthembwe’s area in Blantyre are turning into a…
Read More » -
Putting out fishy bulbs
Ending the ills of fishing bulbs on the waters of Lake Malawi calls for decisive collective effort. JAMES CHAVULA…
Read More » -
Likoma’s endangered school of fishing
Fading allure of fishing reinforces calls for alternative pathways to combat youth unemployment amid rapid population growth. JAMES CHAVULA writes.…
Read More » -
Solution to Nsanje floods
Poverty and disasters can be deadly bedfellows. The two are directly linked. Several reasons account for this. First, the poor…
Read More » -
Bulbs cast shadows over Likoma
Controversial fishing bulbs have left fishers’ future grim. JAMES CHAVULA writes. Back in 2002, nothing could go wrong for 26-year-old…
Read More » -
Creating accountable schools
Closing existing gaps in primary schools could create graver gaps in the absence of checks and balances. JAMES CHAVULA writes.…
Read More » -
Vision 2020: The good, the fall and the hope
Our previous three articles have revealed that Malawi, as envisioned by the Vision 2020 in 2000, will not be a middle-income…
Read More » -
Social protection taking poverty on
Even with billions invested in eradicating rural poverty, there will always be thousands going hungry-thousands more, still in poverty.…
Read More » -
Allure of Green Belt
Michael Jana, political economist lecturer at Chancellor College, has researched and published widely on the political economy of agriculture in…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
Fisp or Green Belt: What will save Malawi?
This year, government seems to be in a race against time is as far as the purchase and distribution…
Read More » -
Demystifying mental health issues
When the stress and anxiety from the pain of losing his parents and later testing HIV positive took its…
Read More » -
Hope in a valley of hunger
A farmer, aged 70 and counting, exemplifies why conservation agriculture could be a game changer amid chronic cries of hunger.…
Read More » -
Likoma’s explosive sex web
A flood of sex workers and gaps in local responses makes 16.5 million Malawians vulnerable to HIV and Aids.…
Read More » -
Still, not yet middle-income economy
By today, at least, Malawi should have been economically self-reliant on its journey to achieve the middle-income status by 2020.…
Read More » -
Ugly face of self-boarding
When Mercy Phiri (not real name) moved to a rented house located close to her school, little did she know…
Read More » -
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…
Read More »