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...
‘Real power is in people’
In this interview, Our Staff Writer James Chavula engages Citizen for Transformation (CFT) movement leader Timothy MTAMBO on his new...
Oxfam safety equipment to ensure Covid-free workforce
Oxfam in Malawi has offered tea producers coronavirus prevention accessories worth K18 million from the Rainforest Alliance and IDH, a...
Two sides of Kamuzu Day
His portrait graces the ceremonial dress of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) he headed until he died on November 25...
Social cash transfers change lives
A woman who abandoned HIV treatment because “life had become worthless” has astonishingly discovered her immense worth in raising orphans...
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...
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...
Goodbye hand-shaking?
Novel foot-shakes. Hi-fives. Elbow bumps. Fist-to-fist Rastafarian greeting. A minister refusing to shake a prime minister’s hand. Lovers swapping hugs...
It’s not far away from Malawi
It takes just two hours for a planeload of people from South Africa to touch down in Lilongwe or Blantyre....
Scramble for cheap grain
Malawi projected a maize surplus of almost 355 000 tonnes last year, but about two million people require food aid...
‘Mini-grids could diversify Malawi’s energy options’
Mini-grids have become the new big deal in supplying electricity to rural areas yet to be reached with grid power...
NGO tackles energy, water gaps
Democracy Works and Freedom House have convened political leaders from different parties to share ideas on how to speed up...
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...
Towards population- centred development
During the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Kenya last November, Minister of Health Jappi Mhango unveiled an...
Capital Hill’s dirty secret
Just five years ago, President Peter Mutharika was among world leaders who resolved to end poverty and environmental ruin by...
Malawi’s $3bn question
Did you know that four in every 100 Malawians still burn firewood, straw and crop residues for lighting? This shines...
Lights on rural darkside
Every day, thousands of vehicles in Malawi hit the road “burning fuel”. Every litre you buy pumps about K42 into...
Stella Gama: Malawi’s only female on climate change negotiations
Women must be at the table when climate change issues come to the table. This is the view of the...
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...
Districts try energy officers
Energy experts are talking about decentralised solutions for unreached populations, but nearly all 28 districts have no energy officers to...
