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Greenbelt initiative: A reality check
Seven years after it was hatched, where are we on the Greenbelt Initiative (GBI)? EPHRAIM NYONDO visited Chikwawa Scheme in…
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Enhancing people’s ability to engage leaders
Esnath Chikuni, 33, is distraught. She feels like a can of a soft drink which is discarded upon drinking its…
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Protecting forests to fight climate change effects
Malawi is taking active steps towards implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) policy process on reducing…
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The unmet need for health care in Rumphi
Travelling through the 27-kilometre narrow and bumpy dirty road from Bolero Health Centre to Jumbi in Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe, one…
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When health policies remain paperwork
Enala Zimba, 27, spends K3 000 (US$7) each time she wants to access antenatal care from either Mtuzuzu or Mabiri…
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Phiri: The beggar who mirrors society’s poverty, indifference
There is no way that odd-looking John Phiri could be allowed to enter a United Nations (UN) session assessing…
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Saving vanishing local seed
Most Malawians shun local maize varieties in preference for high-yielding one. However, some farmers continue growing the disappearing crops, especially…
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River brings hope for irrigation
A small river in rural Phalombe is bringing smiles on the faces that, not long ago, were heavily disfigured by…
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Saving women from climate change burden
It is harvest season here in the fertile plains of Chapananga in Chikwawa District. A mother of six and a…
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How should mining be managed?
Activist Rafiq Hajat has condemned the proposed Draft Mines and Minerals Bill. This bill, he says, creates bureaucracy of byzantine…
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Mining’s biggest question
What, specifically, is the draft mining bill proposing on protecting local communities? Are the proposals really exhaustive of people’s concerns…
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Race for coal ignores worker’s rights
Miners working in the underbelly of coal-rich hills find themselves groping in the dark for their rights and occupational safety.…
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Politicians blamed for Mt. Mulanje degradation
WATIPASO MZUNGU JNR Traditional leaders in Phalombe and Mulanje have accused politicians of perpetuating lawlessness in the harvesting of cedar…
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Fighting bad cultural practices to promote fishing
Geremu Wilson (not real name) vows never to construct fish ponds at his wife’s home village where he lives for…
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Ticking time-bomb in Malawi health sector
The lukewarm approach by authorities in the training and recruitment of healthcare workers may soon cost lives of poor Malawians…
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Fostering cooperatives for better lives
By MIKE CHIPALASA*, FAO MALAWI From humble beginnings in 2004, a group of female smallholder farmers is now growing, thanks…
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Promoting future thuggery through charity
By SALAMATA CHISAMBI*, CORRESPONDENT Since time immemorial, there have been calls by government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development partners to…
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Taming fistula from grass roots
Tomorrow, Malawi joins the world in commemorating the International Fistula Day under the theme Women’s Dignity Begins When Fistula Ends.…
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Cisonecc draws climate change lessons from Kenya
The Civil Society Network on Climate Change (Cisonecc) says their trip to Nairobi, Kenya during the 9th International Conference on…
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