Border community adopts Covid jab
The global spread of Covid-19 illustrates how contagious infections can cross borders at the speed people and goods move. The...
Malawi ready for cholera vaccination
Malawi has received 1.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine from the Global Emergency Stockpile for the first round of...
HSAs are backbone of polio fight
Misozi Bisayi, 39, feels lucky that her last-born son, Joseph, retook polio vaccine at home two months after Malawi confirmed...
UNDP responds to Storm Ana
Since January 24, whirlwinds freely whistle past rubble in Kaseche Village, Traditional Authority Lundu in Chikwawa. Four months ago, devastating...
Shoe doctor wants every child vaccinated
Malawi's first wild poliovirus case in 30 years has left health workers racing against time to vaccinate every child aged...
Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10...
Waning forests up in smoke
alawi is racing against time to save fast-vanishing trees, with half of its forest cover gone up in smoke due...
Beyond rice and lights
Rice farmer Bryony Mywanga of Yembe Trading Centre in Karonga shines a light on the benefits of a new rice...
Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10...
Floods signal bumper yields
It is a hot Saturday morning nearly a month after floods washed Fanny Mtopa’s knee-high maize crop into Mwanza River....
Mtambo meets Asian community Thursday
Representatives of the Asian Business Community have petitioned Minister of National Unity Timothy Mtambo to tackle a rising racist tone...
Storm horror dials up calls for relief
Sarah Bakali, 31, agonises about the night she lost her four-year-old daughter, Abigail, to a devastating flood that flattened her...
Mtambo warns against xenophobic stereotypes
The Ministry of National Unity Timothy Mtambo has appealed against surging discriminatory verbal attacks on Malawians of Asian origin amid...
Solar energy for sustained water supply
When Edmond Hami and his family shifted to Mzuzu in 2020, they endured nightmare Sundays as blackouts hit the northern...
Questions hang over Kapichira power outage
Supposedly mistimed repairs of floodgates at Kapichira Power Station have brought Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) into question for the loss...
Storm Ana disrupts healthcare services
Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA details how flooding and strong winds affected children and families in Chikwawa, the worst-hit districts...
Flood survivors rue Illovo Sugar for frequent floods
Sugar is sweet, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste in Matsukambiya and other villagers at its source down the Shire...
Children caught in storm Ana
When tropical storm Ana hit Southern Malawi, Rose Gubudu, 16, fled her crumbling home and took refuge at Thabwa Primary...
Displaced village demands relocation
It’s time to leave! Demands for relocation are rising in Kanseche in Chikwawa, where floods caused by Tropical Storm Ana...
Nurse helps women give birth using phone light
On January 24, Cyclone Ana left Nchalo Health Centre cut-off by a flood that disrupted electricity and water supply across...
