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Waiting for a chance
Youth empowerment is a burning issue and Malawi must open more doors for her young citizens to acquire skills, writes…
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Narrowing extension services gap
With an overall population of 65 458 farm families from 51 agricultural sections, Chitipa has only 26 field extension officers.…
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Malawi Red Cross in flood contingency drive
The life of one woman in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mkhumba in Phalombe District was drastically changed the day she was…
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The downfall of ‘A Cow, A Family’
Political short-termism killed a national livestock initiative at a time sustained malnutrition, stunting and poverty is disadvantaging Malawians. JAMES CHAVULA…
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The gathering storm
The country’s population is swelling with a crippled health care system supporting it, reports EPHRAIM NYONDO. Well, the storm is…
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Wildfires contribute greatly to global warming
Wildfires produce a witch’s brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. A range of…
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Mzuzu’s dream elderly home
There are 127 elders in total. They usually come in weekly shifts of 51. The other 25 are attended to…
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Pinching child marriages
The conviction in his voice makes you realise that his condemnation of child marriages is just as strong as a…
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18 years of positive living
She was ill and admitted to a hospital in the Northern Region for a while. When doctors wanted to test…
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Winning child marriages battle with by-laws
It was a cultural practice so enshrined in communities in the northern parts of Karonga district. Almost every marriage in…
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Inspired by poverty to save, serve lives
Henderson Fole, 32, a humble resident of Ndirande Township in Blantyre, stands behind Jennifer James, 20, and Christopher Banda, 22,…
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Beyond the policy of ‘corn’ not ‘horn’
Malawi must meet the demand for animal protein to lessen stunting. JAMES CHAVULA writes. In 1972, Malawi founding president, Kamuzu…
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Nature takes revenge
The recent spate of load shedding by the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) is a direct effect of human…
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‘Poverty no excuse for forestry plunder’
Government has dismissed as a lame excuse assertions that poverty is the reason driving Malawians into illegal charcoal production. Minister…
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Rooting out youth illiteracy
Illiteracy is one of the many challenges youths, especially in developing African countries like Malawi, face. Fourteen-year-old Thokozani Gwembele of…
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Getting street children home
Malawi film producer Ezaius Mkandawire’s feature film, Daily Bread, lasts only five minutes, but it captures the reality some street…
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Balancing work and breastfeeding
From August 1 to 7, Malawi joined the world in celebrating the world breastfeeding week. ALBERT SHARRA spoke to some…
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Packing ‘namkwanya’ and its sex rites
Namkwanya is a type of gulewamkulu mask people of Traditional Authority Mwanza in Salima have been associating themselves with, when…
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A safer home at last
A woman who was displaced by floods in January this year is making a fresh start following interventions by government…
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Getting family planning right
At the 2012 London Family Planning Summit, government committed to raising its contraceptive prevalence rate for all women of reproductive…
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