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Youth gang up against drugs
After noticing many young people in Area 36 high on drugs and liquor, their peers decided they had to do…
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Youth gang up against drugs
After noticing many young people in Area 36 high on drugs and liquor, their peers decided they had to do…
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Nine years of a ‘Spy Machine’
Back in October 2011, all Malawi’s four telecommunication service providers, sent identical text messages to subscriber Alick Kimu on his…
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Pupils electrify Mzimba school
The tale of self-made engineer Corled Nkosi, who electrified Kasangazi Village in Mzimba, has been told too many times. The…
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Living positively amid Covid-19
Maurine Phiri was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 10, but the 25-year-old has lived with the virus that…
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What is Forex Trading? An easy-to-understand Guide for Dummies
What is the Forex Market? The Foreign Exchange Market, or more widely known just as the Forex Market, is…
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Frontline workers at risk
Uncertainty is spreading among health workers in Malawi as seven have caught Covid-19, the novel coronavirus disease detected in China…
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Malawian caught in Covid stigma
Call him Chisomo. The 19-year-old from Lilongwe City was among hundreds of African students trapped in Wuhan City, China, four…
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Expanding higher learning
As online learning becomes easy to reach, it is becoming old-fashioned for young Malawians to brag about their ‘university corridors’…
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Two siblings miss in government hands
Margret Bwanali is a 62-year-old widow living in the remotest part of Area 24 in Lilongwe City. She is a…
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Malawi reaping fruits of digital identification
The national ID is a key tool. It has helped Malawi track every name of employee on government payroll to…
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Stigma in quarantine
On April 9, Virginia Phiri, a clinical technician at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe, was recalled from tracing suspects of Covid-19,…
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Two sides of Kamuzu Day
His portrait graces the ceremonial dress of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) he headed until he died on November 25…
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Washing cars for survival
Innocent Lino was washing a car on the edge of a roadside wetland when we met in Lilongwe recently. The…
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A firm start in tricky times
Edith Kachoka, 32, only has good words for Mwangata Community Based Childcare Centre (CCBC) in Traditional Authority Kawinga in Machinga,…
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Mothers build houses for rural health staff
Mphanga and Tsekwe villages resemble many rural parts of Mchinji. The hard-to-reach settings in the western border district are serene,…
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Goats for girls’ education
Girls in traditional authorities (T/As) Maseya and Ngabu in Chikwawa may live to regret not utilising an opportunity presented to…
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Breaking stones to make ends meet
Since the year 2000, Rhoda Kathewera has been mining quarry near Kamuzu Institute for Sports in Lilongwe City. The mother…
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Rescued from marriage, now delivers 70 babies per month
Child marriage is a serious problem in Malawi. The 2017 constitutional amendment raising the age of marriage to 18, for…
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Community policing extraordinaire
To some, he is the defender. To others, he is the enemy. But to communities in Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya…
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