Development
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Psychosocial problems, menace to HIV fight
Seven-year-old Chifundo Christopher aspires to become a pilot. However, he is not sure if the dream will materialise considering the…
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Waiting for justice at Khosolo
In Khosolo, a village in Mzimba plagued by gender-based violence, women have to walk distances to get justice from courts.…
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Magic of farm technology
On Wednesday afternoon in December, Rose Mponda wiped her forehead as she stood at the foot of a hill in…
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Leaching soils: who is to blame?
For three years now, 39-year- old Rose Musa has been growing her 20 by 25 m maize plot oddly. She…
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Help that matters
A recent study by Afrobarometer said it all about Sub-Saharan’s deepening poverty. Despite rapid economic growth, revealed the study, poverty…
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Women’s transport hurdle
Woes of transport sector hamper everybody. But as our correspondent JOY KHAKONA find out in Machinga and Mangochi, women’s lives…
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The making of a garbage city
The story of solid waste management in the city of Blantyre begins in a minibus on a busy Monday morning.…
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To contain HIV and Aids in marriage, educate girls
‘Girl, 14, forced into marriage by parents’ reads a front page of Nation on Sunday early this year. The reason,…
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Fighting culture to end land grabbing
As the remains of her husband were lowered down into the grave on August 19 2008, so ended the peace…
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From poor harvests to abundance
Barely four years ago, 41-year-old Salome Tembo from Masoakhumbira in Traditional Authority Mkukula in Dowa, could not afford to own…
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Farmers improve production with WFP’s P4P
Mwandama Farmer Organisation (FO) in Zomba started under the Millennium Village Project (MVP) which provided agricultural support in 2005. In…
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Keeping children away from streets with goats
It has been over 10 years since Patuma Yasini made a daring but dangerous decision to escape her aunt’s brutal…
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Journey to quench Zomba’s thirst
In the early 1990s, concern over a special species of butterflies found on Zomba Mountain nearly denied the people of…
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Reversing lost soil fertility
Should Malawi scale up its use of inorganic fertilisers or it should pull up its efforts on conservation agriculture? Experts…
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Setting the pace for development
Jabiri Sawezi of Kakopa Village, Senior Chief Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota, is a rare person who does not believe in waiting…
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Smooth road to primary school
Amidu Sipiliyano is only three years old. However, listening to him say a prayer in English, one may think he…
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From a hospital dream to a maize farm
As vandals continue to wreck the ruined relics of what could have been Gadaffi Hospital in Blantyre and also turning…
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Are GMOs here to stay?
Genetically modified organisms (GMOS) have attracted mixed reactions across the world. While some countries have embraced them, such as the…
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Children in adults’ rites
When the first HIV infection was discovered nearly 30 years ago, chinamwali was sacred—too good for seven-year-olds. Yao adolescents used…
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Any remedies for CDF?
Will Constituency Development Fund (CDF) ever be effective? Malawians should be pardoned for thinking: “Why should we care”. In 2012,…
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