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Mzimba District Hospital promises to use Fun Run proceeds well
We have only one famous trolley left at this hospital. It is famous because those pushing it have to be…
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Bringing latrines closer to learners
Schools are credited with giving pupils a solid start in life. However, a prevailing shortage of latrines in some…
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Moving towards nutrition
With government estimates that about 6.5 million people will suffer acute food shortages between now and the next harvesting period…
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With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to earth bag houses
At a local brick kiln, a truck laden with logs pulls up and unloads. Soon, smoke is billowing as…
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Confronting the culture of passive citizenship
Wearing a queer and dejected face, 47-year-old Fidelis Mukumbwa pulled over a stool and sat at one of the…
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Chalking economic fortunes from garbage
Gubu Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Tsabango lies less than seven kilometres from the seat of government at Capital Hill…
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Right to water: The debate
As Malawi water woes continue, the onus is on the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to include the right…
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Is safe motherhood achievable in Malawi?
They trekked from far and wide to participate and render their total support to a Campaign for Accelerated Reduction in…
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Banking hopes on new land law
Ida Bulande, 29, has been growing rice on her two hectares she inherited from her parents about 12 years…
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Women cooperatives ease HIV burden in Kenya
Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes…
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Nurturing soya beans as an alternative to tobacco
Discussions in various forums, exposing its declining role as the country’s leading foreign exchange earner, point to the need…
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More livestock, less productivity: What’s the problem?
From inside a pig kraal for Mariah Mlenga of Luwinga Township in Mzuzu bursts a cacophony each time someone approaches…
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Fighting for the right to water
As access to clean and safe water continues to be elusive for most Malawians, KONDWANI KAMIYALA and EPHRAIM NYONDO explore…
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Leaves in underwear
In this 21st century, some girls and women are finding solace in plant leaves and banana sheaths which they use…
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Fighting child labour, promoting education
He was engaged in tobacco farming for over three years. In the process, he totally disregarded education. Though, only,…
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Enjoying safety in foreign land
In four months time, 30-year-old Nasimango Lackson and her four children will have been without a home for a year.…
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More water points, yet no water in homes
Far from home, the recently released 2015-2016 Key Indicators Report of the yet-to-be officially released Demographic and Health Survey (DHS),…
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Sorry tales of being a tenant
It is a poorly ventilated grass stalk hut that, for at least seven months a tenant farmer, Fabiano Jackison,…
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Sad ailments of Ngoleka children
She falls in a faint minimum of three times a day. After recovering from that she is tied to…
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Bzyanzi: A different prison
Matthias John, 22, was sentenced to three years imprisonment after being found guilty of breaking into a shop and stealing…
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