A century of police reforms
A century ago, Malawi Police was born amid British colonial rule in line with the lawmakers’ resolution of October 5...
Development
Agcom boosts milk business
United dairy farmers in Malawi are determined to cash in on nutritionists’ worries that Malawians are not taking enough milk...
Improving the quality of life with Soya bean farming
Chitseka is a small village located about 15 kilometres north of Kabudula Trading Centre along the Air wing—Kasiya–Santhe Road in...
The precious water drop
While other children were waking up to play and prepare for school, for nine-year-old Ireen Samuel, sunrise meant time to...
Making girls education cool
At 14, Tiyanjane Chafungatira, from Ndenguma Village in Nsanje, dropped out of school because of poverty. Her mother, Lucia Seveni,...
Women group fights hunger
A group of women in Chapananga, Chikwawa, have embraced irrigation to beat hunger caused by prolonged dry spells that occured...
Mobile lessons ease access to health care
In most rural parts of Malawi, sick villagers have to walk several kilometres to the nearest hospital, in the process...
Promoting girls’ education
Tiyanjane Chafungatira from Ndenguma Village in Nsanje dropped out of school at the age of 14 because her single mother,...
Social cash transfer amid Covid
Forty-six-year-old Eliza Santo of Nchilamwera Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Nchilamwera in Thyolo, never imagined that she could withstand deepening poverty...
Water ups war on Covid
Frequent sights of people washing hands before entering Mwanza District Hospital personify improved water supply in the southern border strip....
Cities get solar streetlights
For 20 years, Grace Nduli, 50, has been selling tomatoes, onions and cassava at Zomba Central Market. Until 2017, the...
Water means business
For two decades, Rose Mizere has been running a restaurant in the border town of Mwanza along the road to...
What’s in world’s first 3D-printed school?
When Malawians in Mcheza Village woke up on November 26 last year, they were in awe of a new structure...
As cotton yield grows, farmers feel neglected
They got lured into growing the new but expensive cotton variety after all the talk and demonstrations by scientists that...
‘Women still few in public jobs’
A new report by UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Pittsburgh finds women’s leadership is being undercut by glass...
Jesuits boost rural livelihoods
At 79, group village head Chimbalu of Kasungu is soft-spoken, but with uncharacteristic charm and big ambition. His vision is...
Tapping groundwater, conserving catchments
Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA bares a water engineer’s take on the new normal. For Jacqueline Dais, engineering is a...
‘I’m a happy water user’
Improved water supply in Ntcheu has made a utility’s fiercest critic its walking advert, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes....
Defiled for mom’s sake
She thought life would be better if she followed her mother to Mzimba. The 17-year-old disguised as Masozi was delighted...
Remember Chief Moto
As we celebrate the 57th Independence Anniversary, we must remember Chief Moto. I am happy that I got to know...
