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Beyond tree planting
The Department of Forestry says Malawi needs to plant about 125 million trees each year at a survival rate of…
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Where are the planted trees?
Research shows 60 percent of planted trees do not survive. Why is this the case and what can be done…
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Can Ministry of Education’s bold move help return LDF to original design?
They are there—the skeletons of a failed project parachuted into a community from Capital Hill without the involvement of either…
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Enduring pangs of false hopes in Balaka
The fanfare that characterised the handover of the sugarcane juice processing machinery to Chiyembekezo Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA)…
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Making headway in HIV stigma
Chrissy Stephano, 39, of Ligowe in Neno was diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, 13 years ago. Hers…
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Teresa: living on borrowed time
For five-year-old Teresa Njateni, poverty is not just the lack of material things, which she experiences having been born in…
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JBF pupils fight gully erosion with tree planting
Joyce Banda Foundation (JBF) Primary School pupils have put up a gallant fight against gully erosion around their school premises…
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Saving youths from doom
At the age of 18, Pemphero Chalera of Gongolo Village in T/A Kwataine, Ntcheu is not only bogged down in…
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A shadow MP from overseas
A Dutch nurse that Rumphi residents know as a benevolent ‘mzungu’ will not sit back and observe May 20 polls…
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Facing sexual orientation realities
When her peers began to say she looked and behaved like a boy, Maria lost her self-esteem. She recalls that…
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Fighting early marriages: Bitten by something dark
Dorica Julius, 17, is a Standard Eight pupil who lives at Goliati Trading Centre in Thyolo District. She relates her…
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Restoring environment with fruit trees
Beaten and bruised, adrenalin rushing yet tired. That is what Maria Heriwa (not real name), of Thunga Village, Traditional Authority…
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Man in the maternity world
The country is buzzing with by-laws that aim to enhance male involvement in motherhood. But what does it mean to…
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Mphete school: A jewel on the coals
The Nacala Corridor Railway Project scheduled to complete in December 2014 has been hailed as a landmark project that will…
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Stitching women’s poverty
Winiwa Adam of Mtsiriza slums in Lilongwe remembers how she used to struggle to make ends meet and feed her…
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‘Empower chiefs to save forests’
Senior Chief Nthache of Mwanza says natural resources could be better protected if traditional and community leaders were empowered to…
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Where is the toilet?
Jeremiah Kaonga of Thawiro Village, Traditional Authority Mwiran’gombe in Karonga sets out for the bush with his little axe on…
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Rays of hope in village savings
Edith Kawona from village head (VH) Chapotera in Traditional Authority (T/A) Kunthembwe in Blantyre had resisted joining village savings and…
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Councillor’s unresolved questions
We do not need councillors for the sake of filling a gap in the local governance system. We need councillors…
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Lilongwe River a time ticking bomb
Davie Mashalubu runs a ramshackle paying pit latrine on the bank of Lilongwe River near the bridge. “I have a…
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