Stinkers in your city
In Blantyre City, Mudi River offers passers-by an ugly face of official indifference fuelling water pollution in Malawi. On Monday,...
Making Zomba resilient
Flashbacks of frequent floods in Zomba City have triggered a K1 4 billion initiative to lessen the risk and devastation...
EU injects K3.4bn into Covid-19 fight
The European Union (EU) has allocated almost K3.4 billion humanitarian support to boost Malawi Government’s preparedness and response plan to...
Politicking with wombs
In Malawi, mentions of abortion spark a fierry religious backlash.Recently, religious leaders have been rallying ‘God-fearing Malawians’ to warn their...
Why should women die?
Inkosi Mabulabo receives profound respect in Mzimba South, where he gets informed about every childbirth and funeral. In his territory,...
Rural tea growers fight water scarcity
Many farmers surrounding Malawi’s postcard tea estates struggle for safe water, but some 12 000 members of Sukambizi Association Trust...
Clearing Cyclone Idai rubble
Massive rocks scattered in the middle of Nkhate River, which burst its banks during severe flooding caused by Cyclone Idai...
Usisya’s blinding beauty
Graves on a pristine beach. Cows drinking fresh water on shore where an aura of fish drying in the sun...
Bill renews abortion debate
A lawmaker determined to present the proposed termination of pregnancy law in Parliament wants his colleagues to “vote with a...
‘Save women’
Parliamentary Committee on Health chairperson Mathews Ngwale has announced plans to table the Termination of Pregnancy Bill in the current...
Protecting health workers
Clinician Thokozani Mphatso is terrified of going to Mpatsa Health Centre which he heads. The public facility near Phalombe Boma...
Religiously undeterred
LGBTI Christians in Malawi are silently confronting exclusion in places of worship, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA narrates. Hushed hymns....
‘It’s our time to eat’
Lucius Banda’s new single sounds off-key with Chakwera’s gospel of a better Malawi for all. Our Features Editor JAMES CHAVULA...
Covid tests Nairobi promise
The coronavirus pandemic offers a litmus test for Malawi’s resolve to put sexual and reproductive health (SRH) at the centre...
Money in empty bottles
Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA catches up with cashing in on empty bottles while reducing and reusing the familiar waste...
‘Put councils in check’
Malawi’s return to democracy in 1993 gave rise to calls for decentralisation. Many Malawians prefer calling it “power to the...
Sticky single-use plastics
From thin carrier bags dancing to whistling winds in open markets to many more in the hands of shoppers heading...
Covid-19 shouldn’t kill democracy—Kachale
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Chifundo Kachale has told election managers in southern African nations scheduled to hold polls to...
Energy for New Malawi
Access to energy improves livelihoods and incomes, but only 12 percent of Malawians have access to electricity. The gap is...
Keeping runaway police in check
Police reforms have another chance to go beyond change of name for the benefit of Malawians frustrated by men and...
