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Falling donor funding: A cost for Africa
Hospice is not just a place to die but funding cuts—and that perception—could be killing our chances of a…
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Highway to the grave
There are lingering questions as to why the Karonga-Chitipa Road is in poor state just five years after commissioning…
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Reformed counsellors safeguarding adolescents
We, Malawians, must part ourselves on our backs and smile. Our country is only 54 years old and we have…
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Cultural heritage tourism: a neglect, despair, optimism
Special essay by MWAYI LUSAKA, Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research of the University of Western…
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Malawi’s tourism potential: A shooting bud
There is always a reason to visit Malawi, a country that boasts of spectacular mountains and hills, beautiful perennial…
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Acid attacks turn woman into activism
Jamiddah Namuyumba heard a man’s voice behind her, calling her. She turned around to tell the man, a regular…
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Towards commercial agriculture
John Mikiasi of Simphasi in Mchinji District aspires to engage in largescale commercial farming. He has 10 hectares of…
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Putting women in the frontline against diabetes
Every year, women’s lives continue to be lost to various non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially diabetes. However, if well empowered…
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Kameme’s broken marriages
On that day, James Mwafulirwa, 30, arrived home at around 3am after drink ing chipumu, a strong local opaque beer…
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Marriage, no child’s play
Picture this. A class enrols 100 pupils in Standard One and six years later, half the class drops out…
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Cooling makes milk business hotter
To milk producers, cooling is more essential than air conditioning in policymakers’ offices at Capital Hill. Without refrigeration, livestock…
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Desperation of Malawi’s small Cape Town
Balaka is just one of many urban settlements facing a future with too little water, our Staff writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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Every water point counts
Muthi Nhlema has many passions. He is an engineer, a dramatist, a writer and a water-for-all campaigner. On the waterfront,…
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The joys of mbeya fertilisers
On the foot of Chambe Peak on Mulanje Mountain stretches a slope upon which a half-hectare garden lies thriving…
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Power of a solar tree
It was chilly when we arrived at Mulanje Boma, a small town at the foot of Mulanje Mountain. That…
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The relief that is rotavirus vaccine
Dramatic fall in infant deaths calls for national immunisation programmes to incorporate treatment. A rotavirus vaccine introduced in rural Malawi…
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Saving women from ruptured wombs
In 2016, Margaret Kawala was 41 years-old when she gave birth to her third child. Kawala, who was married in…
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Haunted by unsafe abortion
Just four months after delivering her third child, Margaret Kawala, 42, discovered she was three months pregnant. She felt dejected.…
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Learning the hard way in Rwanda
During a recent visit to one of East Africa’s rising economies, Rwanda, by African Union (AU) delegates there was no…
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Hierarchy shadows conquering our democracy
The former ruling People’s Party (PP) on Friday sealed its national convention, where founding leader and Malawi’s ex-president Joyce Banda…
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