Equipping secondary students with skills
Five years after completing his secondary education, Kingsley Dulamanja seems not to get his feet on the ground. Each day...
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BWB, AEJ re-afforest Mudi catchment area
Winstone Kamanga, a resident of Chirimba, Blantyre, cannot stop complaining about dry taps in his house. “For six months, I...
A tale of child cancer
Cancer remains a silent killer of thousands in the country. Children have not been spared. As the country gears to...
Easing hunger in the Lower Shire
At first, it appeared bizarre that Eliza Diyala, 78, was speaking to herself, repeatedly saying: “We have been saved!†as...
How Zomba has wooed girls to school
At 15, Selina Bestoni of Lamya Village, T/A Mlumbe in Zomba got pregnant. She was in Standard 7. Ashamed, confused...
Why Kyoto Protocol matters to developing countries
One of the topical issues at the 17th Conference of Parties (CoP 17) in Durban last year was the Kyoto...
Kulowa kufa community in dialogue
Not long ago, Emma Tembo of Nsanje confessed in our sister paper Nation on Sunday that she acquired HIV after...
Malawi waiting for disaster to happen
What if the flood gates of heaven finally opened like never before in the disaster prone areas of Southern Malawi...
A mystery called climate change
How much do Malawians believe in the scientific explanation that climate change brings dry spells? Does this connection really make...
Solar pumps help rural communities fight poverty
A family meeting that took place in one of the populous townships in Lilongwe on a chilly Sunday afternoon in...
Scramble for KIA land
A few months ago, the world population hit seven billion. Analysts described this as an indication the world population is...
Poverty shatters young dream
At 13, Godfrey Dick is already a parent fending for his two young brothers and a sister. He dropped from...
July 20: The bloody price of freedom
When Malawi’s multiparty icon the late Chakufwa Tom Chihana said in the early 1990s that he was ready to die...
Farmers embrace new technologies for healthy banana planting material
Kagimbi Tharcisse lifts up the transparent polythene sheet and delicately pulls back some soil to proudly show the tiny banana...
Short women at risk of birth complications
As she writhed about on the maternity bed at Bwaila Hospital in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, Thokozani Phiri knew only one...
Lucius owes it all to his wife
He’s gone from a hero to a zero and back, but Lucius Banda is no fool when it comes to...
Central hospitals heading for disaster with drug shortage
Drug shortage and lack of district hospitals in the country’s cities has overstretched the health system, paralysing delivery of proper...
The costs of abortion in Malawi
Underneath the din of politicians posturing about “life†and “choice,†beyond activists yelling about murder and rights, there are the...
