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Pains of growing old in Malawi
She is 70 years old and has several great grandchildren, five grandchildren from a son and a daughter. Margaret…
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Nsanje’s fearless rights defender
When some village heads in Nsanje decided to swindle beneficiaries of a cash aid scheme in their area, they must…
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Inclusive education on trial
The 2013 Education Act provides for compulsory education for every child in Malawi, including those with disabilities. To ensure that…
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Rising from a troubled past
Hundreds of underprivileged children are breaking the mould for better, thanks to Red Cross. JAMES CHAVULA writes. Society tagged her…
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Picking up pieces after floods
James Antoniyo from Mwalija village in the area of Traditional Authority Chimwala in Mangochi will live to remember what…
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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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Cancer menace in Mzuzu
The pain that the bereaved endure when death knocks is enormous, especially when such death could have been avoided.…
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Beyond literacy for knowledge
At the age of 25, James Mota of Namwera Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Njema in Mulanje can hardly read or…
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Learning in tents the Chingoli way
About half a kilometre from Nkando Trading Centre in Mulanje, woes of compromised education standards and hardships at Chingoliprimary school…
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Two years in marriage for 12 year-old
She is just 14 years old but has seen and experienced both sides of the life—being a girl and…
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Shortages of healthcare workers defeats Aids initiative
Correspondent OWEN NYAKA explores the challenges standing in the way of achieving zero-Aids deaths in Malawi. Malawi’s health sector is…
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Safeguarding a future workforce
At Chintheche Health Centre, health workers are inundated by teen pregnancies. Livingstonia Synod Aids Programme (Lisap), which is striving…
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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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Adolescents groping in the dark
Youth-friendly interventions array of unfounded misconceptions that drive school-going boys and girls into danger zones. JAMES CHAVULA writes. Right…
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Youth unemployment crisis on the wheels
After cycling all day on the streets of busy streets of Mzuzu, Kondwani Chihame hoped to make enough for…
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Young citizens in the bin
Nothing yields nothing. Some young Malawians have become cast-offs due to scanty investment in the technical, entrepreneurial and vocational training…
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From ‘well said’ to ‘well done’
Alarmed by a swelling youth population and unemployment, government has done the right thing to invest in an ambitious programme…
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A day at a circumcision site
Thobias Zachariah, 30, walked about 15 kilometres from his village, Msakambewa in Traditional Authority (T/A) Kanduku to Mwanza District…
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Rush for MYP bases
To most Malawians, the race to Malawi Young Pioneer (MYP) bases evokes memories of war-like scenes of December 1993…
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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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