Development

 A few metres away from the joyful shouts of children playing soccer and the low whispers of women discussing the...

Policy frameworks capitalising on favourable natural conditions have been laid down to trigger a blue revolution in the country but...

Mwatitha Bulayinati, aged about 40, grows groundnuts, maize, soyabeans and other crops for a living. “Some of us have never...

Fredson Binda is the first person in a family of seven to make it to university. In 2019, he was...

Like most women from James Kanono Village in Chiradzulu, Martha Meleka used to leave her home at 3am to get...

Like many Malawian children, Novious Phiri, 11, was happy to start schooling aged six. But he soon dropped out due...

Aubrey Mgala, an extension worker in Lilongwe rural is at a loss; he does not understand why chicken and goats...

As fertiliser prices grow wings, scientists have recoiled to their laboratories to figure out more affordable, effective and sustainable alternatives....

Violence against children remains rampant in Malawi, but a nationwide study conducted in 2015 shows that less than one in...

It is a hot Saturday morning nearly a month after floods washed Fanny Mtopa’s knee-high maize crop into Mwanza River....

Fish can spur Malawi’s race to create one million jobs and enhance livelihoods. But fish farmers and cooperatives demand quality...

Sarah Bakali, 31, agonises about the night she lost her four-year-old daughter, Abigail, to a devastating flood that flattened her...

Efforts are underway to strengthen governance and accountability in Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP), wirites Unicef communications officer REBECCA...

When tropical storm Ana hit Southern Malawi, Rose Gubudu, 16, fled her crumbling home and took refuge at Thabwa Primary...

The bleating of goats in the bushy wetland along Lisito River in Kasungu illustrates farmers’ rising passion to reap maximum...

In Malawi, expanding access to water remains a 2D activity—drill or dam. However, over a quarter of the water points...

United Nations agencies in Malawi have started providing aid to victims from Tropical Storm Ana, which killed scores of people...

In Mzimba, few women own land, let alone maize mills. Even men who own grinding mills stand accused of bewitching...

Persons with disabilities risk being left behind as disasters triggered by climate change become more frequent and devastating. Thomson Chikopa,...

“I have a small body but a big brain,” brags Fulale Mbinga, poking her head as she feeds a cow...