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NEPAD to roll out projects worth billions
The New Partnership for Africa’s’ Development (NEPAD) says projectsaligned in the next ten years will not only ensure a dynamic…
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Living with crocodiles
Emily Fologonya 10, lost her mother to a a crocodile attack last year. “Her mother was weeding in a maize…
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Lead links communities to family planning and climate change
The Leadership for Environment and Development (Lead) says there is need for an integrated approach to issues of population, family…
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Saving a market from fire
A walk at Vigwagwa Market in the heart of Mzuzu City takes one through timber stalls where vendors sell their…
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‘Marriage can wait, education cannot’
At 14, some girls dream of becoming highly educated and secure a bright future, while others are tempted by material…
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Climate change negotiators explore consensus in advance of COP20
During a workshop hosted by ACPC for the African Group of Negotiators on the 12-14 May 2014, participants concurred that…
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The chaos that is in markets
Despite paying a K100 market fee for selling bananas at Dyeratu Market every day, Lucy Javelo, 39 of Traditional Authority…
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Bus preachers with a 20-minute challenge
The bus driver revs up the engine and eases into gear one, in a tell-tale indication that – after an…
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Slippery road to education for the deaf
Financial woes crippling services at Bandawe School for the Deaf exemplifies how lack of sufficient funding, as cited by the…
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Towards girls’ inclusion in sciences
Last month, science and mathematics teachers had a refresher course at Mzimba Secondary School to bolster their skills. Although government…
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Is religion a threat to universal primary education?
The United Nations (UN) singles out education as one of the most powerful tools in propelling countries to higher levels…
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Death of a forgotten mother
Some contrasts are stunning. Such was the outpouring of midwives at Mzenga Health Centre, a far-flung facility where four health…
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Nkhata Bay’s unmet needs for midwives
An award-winning midwife in Nkhata Bay is actually the face of numerous challenges the overwhelmed health workers are facing in…
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When self-boarding is banned
Despite the challenges, self-boarding is helping girls, through cutting the long distances to and from school, to complete their secondary…
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Teaching communities to fish
Just teaching people to fish is said to be more sustainable than giving them fish, but Mzuzu University is giving…
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Turning a violent page
Nineteen-year-old John Chilambe had barely made himself comfortable at the middle of hardcore criminals when a messy inmate ordered him…
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Giving babies for others to care?
It is around midnight at Mpemba Reformatory Centre in Blantyre. All corridors are quiet as almost everyone is in bed.…
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Hoping for increased access to ICT
With poor incentives in promoting ICT services, Malawi has produced some female models in ICT, but where are we…
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Manifestoes nip ECD in the bud
People, not natural resources, are nation’s prime asset. It is people, in 1765, who tilled the land, grew cotton, created…
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From grass to iron sheets
There is nothing sweet about the house which Effie Wilesi, 52, of Robin Village, Senior Chief Chikumbu in Mulanje District…
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