Weekend Investigate
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Burning issues with your cup of tea
In October 2019, Malawi experienced 10 consecutive days with a sudden surge in temperature that left vegetation brown. The heat…
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Nine years of a ‘Spy Machine’
Back in October 2011, all Malawi’s four telecommunication service providers, sent identical text messages to subscriber Alick Kimu on his…
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Malawi reaping fruits of digital identification
The national ID is a key tool. It has helped Malawi track every name of employee on government payroll to…
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Rescued from marriage, now delivers 70 babies per month
Child marriage is a serious problem in Malawi. The 2017 constitutional amendment raising the age of marriage to 18, for…
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Saved from jaws of a heartless uncle: A sad tale of Alefa
Her life was completely traumatized. Her innocent soul was bruised with scars that speak volumes of a horrible story of…
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Why does Chinsinsi hope again?
Chinsinsi (not real name) was just four years old in 2006 when she was diagnosed with HIV at Queen Elizabeth…
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Food prices fly away as trees fall
As Malawi’s forests get thinner, farmers haunted by chronic food shortage could be seeing a worsening crisis closer than policymakers…
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Malawi communities scare away loggers with beehives
Keeping bees is both a way of preventing deforestation in a country where burning wood for fuel is common and…
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Making pregnancy a choice, not a chance
Malawi faces a huge gap in supply and demand for meeting the need of family planning for women of childbearing…
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Admarc and smallholder farmers’ development in Malawi
Admarc is better placed to help the development and transformation of the smallholder subsector, probably than any other institution. But…
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Admarc and the smallholder farmer in Malawi
The Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) is probably the most revered institution in the agriculture sector in Malawi among…
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Planning energy investments: Lessons from Malawi
Whole-system energy investment planning shows how countries like Malawi can reach Sustainable Energy for All goals at a lower cost,…
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Rural mini-grid powering development
Electricity access is essential for people’s lives and livelihoods: from using fridges to storing food and medicine; charging mobile phones…
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Counting fragile gains over HIV
Travellers in Malawi are seeing dramatic declines in Aids-related deaths everywhere they go. Why is such the case? JAMES CHAVULA…
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Slow prep for zero HIV in women
HIV in Malawi has a woman’s face because she remains exposed to the virus, with girls aged 15-25 demonstrating almost…
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Taking HIV response beyond 90-90-90
Its 2020, the turning point in the global push to end the Aids pandemic. Although the country has surpassed 90-90-90…
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Will medical humanities solve some health problems?
Have you ever gone to a public hospital and left disappointed with the way medical practitioners treated you? Or have…
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Towards an inclusive, equitable quality education
In this last part of the series, our reporter JOHN CHIRWA interrogates solutions and interventions put in place to achieve…
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Illomba bud massaged too long
Government has on two occasions tried to cancel Illomba Granite Company’ mining licence, suggesting failure to comply with the Mines…
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Indigenous crops enhance food security
With 10 bags and a granary full of maize, 70 year-old Lovemore Tachokere enters the 2019/2020 growing season with a…
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