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When there is no place to call home
Twenty-two-year-old Famous Kumbaya lived in Blantyre streets for four years. He ran away from home in 2012 after his father…
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Cooperating for better results
About 700 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are carrying out various interventions to complement government’s development agenda, this is according to the…
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Girls go dirty for clean money
Superstores’ shelves in Malawi are sagging under the weight of imported farm produce as the local harvest is widely perceived…
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Joy as Makwasa elderly regain sight
Imagine you are working in your maize field and suddenly you feel like there is sand in your eyes. You…
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Water project brings sanity in Mzimba
Water is life, so the saying goes. However, for some people in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mzikubola in Mzimba, the adage…
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Uterus ruins persist in public hospitals
On the morning of July 17 2019, Madalitso Simpokolwe of Area 18 in Lilongwe gave birth by Caesarean section at…
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Dwarf bananas, big bunches
As maize yield keeps dwindling due to erratic rains and degraded soils, farmers in Nkhata Bay are reverting to bananas…
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Climate adaptation restores dreams
Two years ago, Brenda Mkandawire was staring a bleak future with a baby bulge to nurse. The pregnancy forced her…
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Likoma cultural tourism at a glance
Fudwe Wildlife Farm and Museum sits on an elevated location commonly known as Phiri Mbuzi by the locals in Likoma.…
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Phalombe’s lessons of survival
Cyclone Idai hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe hard during last year’s rainy season. Over 2 million people were affected with…
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Youths embrace farming
Lack of good job offers has pushed some youths in Mzimba into farming as a business, but poor market linkages…
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Solar-power sweetens farmers’ lives
Evance Chadewa’s three-acre sugar cane farm in Chankhanza Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kanyenda in Nkhotakota is his lifeblood. He switched…
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Sunlight waters dry farmland
Solar mini-grids for irrigation help starving farmers beat water scarcity, hunger and poverty made worse by climate change, our Staff…
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Child marriage woes
One morning, people in Nimbire Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mlomba in Machinga woke up to the disturbing news that Amidu…
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No UN resolution on drowning prevention
It’s a crisis. The figures tell it all. Close to four million people, most of them children, have died due…
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Can technology make the water safe?
There are many ways of killing a rat. This is the direction that experts and activists in drowning prevention have…
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Lessons from Zanzibar
Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island has been struggling with drowning over the years. The figures are alarming. The island with a population…
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Teaching children survival swimming
Every Saturday Lunia Bandawe, a resident of Chiwembe Township in Blantyre takes her children for swimming lessons at a hotel…
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Silent crisis in the water
Malawi is endowed with the 365-kilometre-long Lake Malawi—the world’s third largest freshwater lake. The country is also blessed with other…
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Chikwati’s strides in farming
Oris Chikwati, 33, from Group Village Head (GVH) Mpulula in Balaka was awarded the Conservation Agriculture Model Farmer Southern Africa…
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