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Learning amid Covid-19
Emily Leston was devastated when coronavirus disrupted learning on March 31. “Every day, children ask me why they aren’t going…
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Who will police captured police?
The new broom in charge of the police system faces a tough task to tidy up the security agency only…
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Zomba gets resilience boost
Malawi will benefit from a UN-Habitat regional project to build urban populations’ resilience to climate change in South-eastern Africa The…
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Chief leads Covid fight
When Malawi first got to know about the coronavirus, Malawians did not expect the disease to find its way into…
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Finding sustainable alternatives in fighting Covid- 19
After seeing the rise in demand for re-usable face masks, trainers and other members of staff at Dowa Development Aid…
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Soldiers’ epic march on impunity
It takes a strong institution to protect citizens marching against their rulers. The assignment can be tougher for security agencies…
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Going beyond teaching
Perching on a hilltop at the end of a bumpy, dusty, winding road, some 170 kilometres from Mzimba Boma, is…
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Covid steals tobacco farmers’ big dreams
During his 15 years as a Malawian tobacco farmer, Boniface Namate has had to overcome many difficulties growing the plant…
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Oxygen for Covid fight
In his first interview after recovering from coronavirus disease (Covid-19), UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson remembered gasping for air when…
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Shedding poverty bit by bit
James Kayoyola, 53, is a famous tinsmith in Kachitsa Village, Traditional Authority Kambwiri in Salima. He hammers out watering cans,…
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Warning: Women at work
Dawn has just broken in Jingani Village in Rumphi and villagers are emerging from their homes. As morning chores typified…
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Disability rights warrior
Last November, rights activist Rachel Kachaje was happy when Stellenbosch University resolved to give her an honorary doctorate in recognition…
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Orange potatoes tackle malnutrition
Dorica Samson knew what malnutrition can do to poor children when her frail son, Chrispin, was bedridden at a rural…
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Reviving sick banana industry
A bumpy earth road off M5 at Chisaka Trading Centre in Nkhotakota leads to Kayembe Farm Field School, a banana…
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Cashing in on young lives
Armed with just K200 back in 2009, a primary school dropout disguised as Limbani Chulu opened a shebeen in Area…
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Lulanga’s stitch in time
A dusty footpath to Nelson Lulanga’s place at Chipoka in Salima District looks less trodden with dry leaves forming a…
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Clean cooking for tidy markets
Not all that stinks is garbage. Your waste could be an innovator’s raw material or goldmine. At Tsangano Market in…
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Deported as Covid spreads
Amid an increasingly fierce scramble for jobs and falling crop yield from degraded soils, busloads of young Malawians keep fleeing…
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Mental health amid Covid-19
An 18-year-old we have renamed Peter to safeguard him from picking stigma and discrimination was diagnosed with coronavirus on arrival…
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Forgotten inmate walks free
Last week, on a sunny Tuesday, a frail-looking 41-year-old finally walked to freedom after “wasting 12 years” at Mzuzu Prison…
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