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Home of Hope raising Mchinji
Rose Mulenga, 21, from Matuwamba Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mkanda in Mchinji, did not have the opportunity to know her…
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Toying with a health hazard
Seven years ago, Mzuzu City Council (MCC) hatched a dream to make the city a model in waste management both…
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Faith’s rise against odds
Poverty, hunger, inadequate school facilities, sexual and gender-based violence—schoolchildren in Malawi face multiple challenges that prevent them from accessing quality…
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Saved from jaws of a heartless uncle: A sad tale of Alefa
Her life was completely traumatized. Her innocent soul was bruised with scars that speak volumes of a horrible story of…
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Why does Chinsinsi hope again?
Chinsinsi (not real name) was just four years old in 2006 when she was diagnosed with HIV at Queen Elizabeth…
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Covid-19 restores hospital hygiene
It is Monday noon, a visiting hour at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. As usual, people are trickling…
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Janet’s second chance
When Janet Samuel was selected to Golomoti Community Day Secondary School in Dedza District, her parents could not afford tuition…
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Improving TB detection in children
Malita Chipungu, 26, was all smiles when she gave birth to twins—Aisha and Idah—last August at Thyolo District Hospital. However,…
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Food prices fly away as trees fall
As Malawi’s forests get thinner, farmers haunted by chronic food shortage could be seeing a worsening crisis closer than policymakers…
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Goodbye hand-shaking?
Novel foot-shakes. Hi-fives. Elbow bumps. Fist-to-fist Rastafarian greeting. A minister refusing to shake a prime minister’s hand. Lovers swapping hugs…
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Rush for masks kicks in
When health workers in Wuhan City detected an influx of pneumonia patients presenting with coughs and difficulty in breathing, they…
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Bishops warn against coronavirus
As Covid-19, the coronavirus disease, continues to spread around the world and more countries in Africa are confirming positive cases,…
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Kicking out malaria
The onset was slow and ignored. Not a day later. Weary from garden, little Anjilu’s mother found him weak and…
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It’s not far away from Malawi
It takes just two hours for a planeload of people from South Africa to touch down in Lilongwe or Blantyre.…
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Malawi communities scare away loggers with beehives
Keeping bees is both a way of preventing deforestation in a country where burning wood for fuel is common and…
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Death sentence retrial
Presidents in Malawi stopped signing death warrants in 1992, but courts still convicts to death sentence to punish offenders and…
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Farmers adopt high-yielding tech
For the past three years, Aubrey Kabudula, a farmer from Maseya Village in Chikwawa, has been growing rice, maize and…
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Finding gold in groundnuts
For Mwatitha Brainati, 39, a mother of four from Mkukhi Village, Traditional Authority Kalonga in Salima District, farming is an…
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Making pregnancy a choice, not a chance
Malawi faces a huge gap in supply and demand for meeting the need of family planning for women of childbearing…
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Scramble for cheap grain
Malawi projected a maize surplus of almost 355 000 tonnes last year, but about two million people require food aid…
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