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Smelly side of Lilongwe
It is December 20 around 8am and many Lilongwe residents are shopping for presents for Christmas. But Moses Bandawe, 19,…
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Girls growing too quick
Gaps in social welfare and child protection systems keep pushing poor girls to become parents too young. At 12, Zaina…
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Menstruating with dignity
Students from schools within TA Kachindamoto’s area celebrate after receiving free reusable sanitary pads In Africa, women and girls aged…
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‘I’m no celebrity, help me’
When Austin Luciano heard that government was going to shell K20 million to airlift famous comedian Eric Mabedi to India…
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Dry valley turns to sunlight
In Kasisi, communities hit hard by chronic water-related disasters face untold uncertainties amid forecasts of floods on the southern tip…
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Cocoa farmers of Karonga
Cote d’Ivoire is the world’s largest exporter of cocoa, with Ghana ranked second. Malawi is nowhere on the list, but…
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Out of darkness
For over six years that Vivian Bwanausi has been teaching at Mtembe Primary School in Lilongwe Rural, preparations for class-work…
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Phwezi Girls’ K2m regret
A breakdown in a biogas plant at Phwezi Girls Secondary School has exposed huge savings learning institutions can make by churning…
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Counting the cost of road carnage
In this final part, Our Reporter AYAMI MKWANDA looks at how much the country loses due to road accidents and…
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Dazzling Warm Heart of Africa
In 1859, venerated Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone saw in Malawi a “lake of stars”. In this encounter with our…
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No contraceptives in sight
Anne Chafera used to walk over 10 kilometres(km) to access her number one family planning method at Malomo Health Centre…
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The relief that is inoculants
Not too long ago, 43-year-old Ali Chande was just like any ordinary farmer in Katuli Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Katuli…
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New hope for banana farmers
For over 10 years now, Mirriam Biziweki and her family have been surviving on selling bananas at Bvumbwe Market in…
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Mpira Dam dries up, communities suffer
By 3am everyday, Dalisi Fuleza sets out on a journey to search for water from a nearby borehole. “You have…
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Why road accidents galore?
Last week Weekend Investigates established that the number of people killed in road accidents has risen in the past five…
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After 7 years in children’s home
Mary Lingisoni, 11, lives with her two older sisters, Agnes and Ellen, her father and stepmother in a township on…
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Five things about COP24 so far
AsCOP24 draws to a close on Saturday, we unpack some of the burning issues about the eventful climate talks in…
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Policing illegal mining
When people from Lumwira and Dzondi in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mazengera in Lilongwe District saw an Indian searching for gold…
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Taming Mchinji’s young sex workers
Thirteen-year-old Janet Njoka should have been in either Standard Eight or Form One at any school, but she is a…
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No pads, no problem
Fifteen-year-old Fazira Cassim is back in school at Mtakataka Primary School in Monkey Bay, Mangochi District one year after being…
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