Weekend Investigate
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Living in Malawi, served by Mozambique
Lack of FM radio signals in Muloza is forcing people to listen to radio broadcasts in Mozambique, missing out on…
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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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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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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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Agriculture for development agenda in Malawi
In this article TAMANI NKHONO-MVULA is trying to the question how can we make agriculture a tool for development. Since…
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Tobacco: Deadly business—Part ii
BY Sarah Boseley for The Guardian, UK The leaf-buying companies, Alliance One, Universal—in Malawi known as Limbe Leaf—and the tobacco giant…
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Tobacco: A deadly business
Children in poor families work the fields in Malawi, impacting schooling, amid signs of a growing international crisis. The Guardians…
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Challenge of low enrolments in higher education system—Part II
In the previous entry, contributor STEVE SHARRA discussed the history that has created a mindset that holds back higher education…
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The challenge of low enrolments in higher education system
As June ended, academics and leaders from Malawi’s higher education institutions met in Mangochi for a conference on higher education.…
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Battling to save bananas in Nkhata Bay
Bananas are one of the traditional crops in Nkhata Bay. However, facing extinction due to Banana Bunchy Top Virus, communities…
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Adapt or perish: Innovative solutions to changing climate
As countries transition toward climate-resilient sustainable development, the Department of Environmental Affairs in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and…
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Imported charcoal burns forests
Red, blue, yellow, green…but blackish. Such is an array of colours of charcoal bags travellers see on descent from Blantyre…
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Drug resistant TB patients face expulsions
Our Staff Reporter exposes how a group village head expelled her daughter-in-law, a glimpse of discrimination and exclusion of people…
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Fistula treatment: A healing too far
Women left behind because of aftermaths of fistula cry for greater investment to bring treatment closer to those who need…
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Silent sobs of women with fistula
Fistula repair surgeries are liberating women dehumanised by the treatable birth-related condition which leaves them disgraced and discriminated. It is…
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Climate extremes, policy confuse farmers
Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full…
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Malawian villages cope with an extended cholera season
Malawi is currently facing a cholera outbreak and Lilongwe. This is the latest in series of cholera outbreaks across the…
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Fishy, fishy relay race
The scramble for fish in Lake Malawi has reached a fever pitch with traders taking into the water to buy…
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Beating TB resistance 9 pills a day
Navenya’s fightback mirrors the hardships and hopes of Malawians with multi-drug resistant TB, our Features Editor JAMES CHAVULA writes. In…
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Inside a Kangaroo Unit: where tiny babies’ lives are on knife-edge
For 25-year-old Zione Pilirani (not her real name), this was her tender life’s defining moment. She was basking in…
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