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Difficult childhood fuels determination
Athletes often have that one thing that fuels their determination to succeed and for women’s marathon world record-holder Brigid Kosgei,…
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NAM denies Queens’poor food reports
Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) has dismissed allegations that Malawi national netball team players were given junk food during the…
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A cry for more jobs
When he was 19, Leo Benito Major from Sandama Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Nsabwe in Thyolo travel led about 354…
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Building eco conscious communities
In recent times, there has been a boom of cooking stoves touted to use less firewood for cooking and heating…
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Plight of visually-impaired mothers
A delaide Tengeza, a visually impaired woman from Nkawela Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Chimaliro in Thyolo recalls vividly how she…
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Frontline women of tobacco markets
The auctioneers chant is unmistakable, even in the din of the huge tobacco auction floors, you will hear it. Farmers…
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Demystifying infertility
A dream for a blissful marriage life that Mary Magwira longed for remains an enigma to her because she cannot…
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Plastics polluting tourist spots
On a sweltering morning in Salima, we saw how growing thirst for water packaged in plastic bottles is slowly polluting…
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Turning to familiar foe for water
The power of sunlight goes deeper to tap water for populations that rued abundant sunny days when taps run dry,…
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Unscripted and unstoppable
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child. SHORAI NYAMBALO-NG’AMBI from Unicef Malawi shares a tale of a midwife…
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Mango trees burn as forests wane
In Mulanje West, we saw people felling mango trees one by one to burn bricks. According to locals, the rush…
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Suicide on the rise
In Malawi, more and more people kill themselves. Most of them are men. Family problems and economic hardship are among…
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Water for expanding cities
As the dry season sets in, Blantyre City residents are increasingly waking up to dry taps or weak trickles. Angela…
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Dry towns sitting on water vaults
A rush to the rivers below the country’s drying towns bares new promising groundwater levels, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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‘You’ll never be forgotten’
You will never be forgotten! Brigadier Tom Bateman proclaimed this on Monday as he ushered Prince Harry to lay a…
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From poverty to power
Two Malawian teenagers, whose lives have been devastated by the effects of climate change, are urging the United Kingdom (UK)…
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Not by maize alone
Elizabeth Mphaza, 56, scarcely harvests enough maize to feed her family until the next harvest. The mother-of-four, who lives in…
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Living by example, no plastics
Water packaged in plastic bottles typifies Malawi’s conference culture. Increasingly, participants of such meetings sip bottled water to keep in…
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Hard choices for plastic-free future
Bright Nyasaland quit school when he was in Standard Two, but he has learnt a lot from the world around…
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What’s burning with plastics?
It is 5am in Machinjiri Township on the eastern side of Blantyre and the morning breeze is fouled by fumes…
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