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Detained for 50min in Makanjira
It is 10.28 on Monday morning, February 26 2018. The place is Mbalaka Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Makanjira…
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Sacrificing life for wildlife
He has fought nerve-wracking battles, faced and escaped death more than once. This is the untold story of one game…
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Shining with six points
Sixteen-year-old Felistus Thom smiled from ear to ear when she received her best student award from the First Lady…
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Chemical war on armyworms
Since fall armyworms arrived in Malawi December of 2016, government and development partners have developed strategies to effectively control…
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Will $4.8 million save cotton industry?
People such as Patrick Zgambo, Sarai Nkhonjera and Lughambo Mwalughali in Karonga as well as Victor Rabson in Balaka have…
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Dzalanyama: Our forest, our future
Dzalanyama Forest Reserve located 50 kilometers to the west of Lilongwe City used to be a thick forest packed with…
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Farmers use sugar to battle pests
Armed with fish soup and neem leaves, as well as chemical pesticides, drought-hit farmers in Malawi are fighting a…
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Risky childbirths of Ruarwe
Last December, Pamela Mphasi, 21, gave birth at home and named the baby Favour because she was born “luckily if…
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Messing up with childbearing
The joy of a mother is a story every woman gladly shares, but the pent-up pain of giving birth…
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When policies fail, people suffer
For 33-year-old Rubbsky Mataya, when health workers at Mchinji District Hospital told him there was no medication to treat the…
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Death in Nobody’s Hotel
This is a story of torture tolerated, reforms postponed and human rights violations widely accepted, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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Pupils stuck in disaster ruins
Flooded crop fields, homes ripped to rubble, 106 people dead, 172 missing and 230 000 displaced. The floods that affected…
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Starved to maddening death
The slow death of Prisoner 1507/3231 exposes how prisons are starving inmates, JAMES CHAVULA writes. On April 15…
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Stuck in traffic jam
It is Monday, another workday. Commuters in Blantyre are mourning as a minibus they are boarding was driving at…
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Learning dangerously
Pupils at Chibanja Primary School in Mzuzu face the wrath of nature. Locals call the disaster-prone leaning institution ‘madimba’,…
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Spirited moments with Mpasu
The year must have been 1996 or 1997. I am not sure. But I am certain that I was a…
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Chipembere’s rebel takeover
This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the largest armed conflict in independent Malawi, our contributor WILLIE ZINGANI writes. Most…
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Dying crops under attack
In her late 50s, Lalichiledye Disi has three children and six grandchildren to feed. The woman in Nsanyira Village,…
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Cholera on postcard isles
You have heard no person is an island, but Chief Mkumpha of Likoma District wants policymakers to know “no island…
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Coal against power blackouts
Almost 90 percent of Malawians do not have access to electric power, and the 10 percent who do, experience frequent…
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