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Saving lives with the Blantyre Coma Scale
Agness Hale, mother to three-year-old Mable, first noticed the unusual quietness in her daughter on the morning of 29 April…
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Govt against charcoal mass production in Neno
Malawi’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Management through Environment Department Affairs has tipped the people of Neno District in…
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Has the subsidy programme really been a success?
Agness Maonga has nothing but praise for the Farm Inputs Subsidy Programme (Fisp). Being a beneficiary, from the time it…
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‘Human dignity can avert HIV infections’
Austin Gama was in his late 20s when he declared his HIV status to his community in Ntcheu. He has…
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Long way to eradicating HIV, stigma at workplace
Blantyre-based HIV and Aids civic educator Linnah Matanya is filled with sorrow. She fears for people living with the virus…
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After 53 years, the rector has retired
Twenty-nine-year-old Georg Messer Junior made the hardscrabble journey from Europe to Malawi driven by a sense of mission. That was…
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Healing the street child
In the coldest nights of June, there is always a boy without a home standing helpless beside a tree, shivering.…
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Challenges of uplifting girls’ class performance
Proponents of girl child education and 50-50 campaign would be disillusioned with results of the recent primary school district mock…
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IPI, IANRA call for review of mining policies
The Institute for Policy Interaction (IPI) and the International Alliance on Natural Resources in Africa (IANRA) have teamed up in…
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Who will save Malawian traders?
Lyton Mangochi, a small-scale businessperson at Karonga District Market, is dying for a saviour. He needs the saviour, now; or…
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Are parents doing enough in children’s education?
With just one look, you could tell they were coming to school. Being a Thursday morning, their uniforms were dirty,…
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How mandasi transformed lives
She was a pariah to her husband for the first eight years of her 29 year-old marriage. She rediscovered her…
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Unmet need increasing population in Malawi
Maria Phiri, 36, of Kawale in Lilongwe had been using Depo Provera, an injectable family planning method, for over a…
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Giving attention to mental health
It is common to see mentally ill people in Malawi’s cities, some of whom patronise churches on Sunday. In some…
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Challenges of the diabetic in Malawi
Grieves Mang’anda is a youthful medical doctor, yet it took him long to realise he had diabetes, a non-communicable disease…
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Msuku’s rice tale
How fortunes change! Only in 2008, John Msuku was like any other rice farmer in Karonga, toiling in the field…
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EU pumps in 8 million euros for Africa’s climate change fight
The European Union has granted the ClimDev Africa initiative the sum of 8 million Euro grant to support Africa’s response…
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Eliminating paediatric HIV, Aids
Margaret Paulo, 34, is a mother who found out she was HIV positive in August 2010. She was four months…
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Communities to curb siltation on power generation
Two things are common in Malawi, especially at night: blackouts and the sound of generators in various workplaces. Power interruptions…
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Is ACB fulfilling its duty?
After Malawi established the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as a graft busting body, cases of corruption continue and Malawians differ on…
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