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Africa faces treeless future
A recent Millennium Development Goals (MDG) outlook has put into question Africa’s strides towards ensuring environmental sustainability, saying evidence from…
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A day in police dogs’ den
Dogs are increasingly becoming an important security feature even for globally acclaimed detective agencies, including the US Federal Bureau of…
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For Providence’s sake
Can an illiterate person become a president? Anne Matumbi’s song Maphunziro kept interrogating past and present students of Providence Secondary…
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Is there hope for Unima students’ strikes?
There are two parties—or say point of views, to every conflict. University of Malawi (Unima) students, precisely those from Chancellor…
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Highs, lows of early childhood development
It is said that a child who attends kindergarten does well in primary school and later stages of life. Despite…
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Winning HIV, Aids fight with former sex workers
A group of former sex workers in Mangochi are eager to be counted for making a difference in HIV and…
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Tea research responding to climate change
The effects of climate change have not left out the tea industry, Malawi’s third forex earner. Unreliable rains have drained…
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Slow connection, please wait…
Last year, the US-based World Internet Stats released figures of Internet users which left many feeling wow! For the first…
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Which way with cotton pricing?
Fredson Chalira of Kasokeza Village, T/A Makhwira, Chikhwawa was a happy cotton farmer in 2011. The ‘gold of the Shire…
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Homeless but sheltering multitudes
When she first came to Malawi in 1974 fresh from studying paediatrics in her native Italy, little did Sister Rita…
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ICT: Good or bad for road safety?
To most of travellers on Malawi’s roads, gone are the days they could throw their hands in the air and…
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Wonders of volunteerism in HIV fight
She saw her husband ill and dying. Then her year-old son, too, joined the fray. It was a twin sickness…
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Putting subsidy future in mobile phone
The United States Agency for International Development (USaid) Malawi office is working on enhancing the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp)…
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Detained in the line of duty
When journalists went marching on May 3, World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), they were a poster short of last year’s…
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Baking waste into wealth
Many slum dwellers do not have a lot of alternatives. With no or limited educational qualifications and access to loans…
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Behind artificial fertilisers
Through the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp), government is promoting use of artificial fertilisers in crop production. ALBERT SHARRA explores the challenges…
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Boosting immunity with indigenous vegetables
Her health was fast deteriorating when Ida Chapuma decided to go for an HIV test at a hospital in Lilongwe.…
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Labour gaps: System error?
March 31 2013 was meant to end a long wait for better pay, but April 1 turned out to be…
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Saving lives with medical kits
Veronica Gondwe, 16, from Kashata Village, Traditional Authority Kilupula in Karonga has been sick for a while. Her mother, Maggie,…
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Power for economic rise
Mining can be offered all the political will it requires—but unless electricity supply improves, it won’t be worth much. JAMES CHAVULA tracks…
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