Development
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When villagers overpower authorities
Four months ago, Alesi Jonas was a buoyant mother of one living happily in her marital home with a hygienic…
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Uniting to save water
On March 12 2013, residents of Machinjiri and Chirimba townships in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, woke up to another day…
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Banks bridging gender gaps in Malawi
Recognising the hurdles Malawi women meet to access financial services, Gladys Mponda teamed up with nine friends to put together…
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Malawi village rises to protect women’s rights
As Malawi commemorates International Women’s Day this week, under the theme ‘A promise is a promise: Time for action to…
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Cries of displaced children
The impact of conflict on children must be everyone’s concern. Those at Bvumbwe camp cry for warring Thyolo villages to…
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Inside evacuees camp
Chitsanzo Kasalika of Kandulu Village, Traditional Authority Ndindi in Salima, will never forget the dawn on January 6 this year.…
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When bars are home to toddlers
Juliana is barely four years old. She lives at Msungwi Trading Centre in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. At her age, she…
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Malawi roads crying out for help
The rainy season in Malawi has left most of the roads potholed and almost unusable. The situation puts engineering into…
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Circles restoring Malawi’s women rights
It was supposed to be a thing of the past in Malawi. After all, examples, including Herbert Mankhwala’s hacking the…
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Easing rural access to ICT
Johnson Sembo, 28, did the unthinkable when he left Mzuzu City in northern Malawi for his village to acquire information…
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Whither gender equality law in Malawi?
Typical of remote parts of the country, the hills and valleys of Chapananga in Chikhwawa offer overwhelming encounters with teenage…
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Floods: Counting the losses
Struggling to kindle a fire on the wet veranda of her leaky grass-thatched hut, Christina Sitenala, a resident of Chipondeni…
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Road signs vandalism, Malawi’s challenge
The opening of the Lakeshore (M5) Road in the 1980s was a relief to people travelling between Nkhata Bay and…
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Boosting agriculture production through technology
They have been hard-working farmers for close to two decades now but they have little to show for it. Susan…
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Congestion in prison, any hope?
Maxwell Makande, 37 of Msambuka Village, Traditional Authority Malemia in Zomba, walked into the walls of Chichiri Prison in 2007…
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Community service for Malawi convicts working?
Henderson Zambezi (26) of Mitete Village, Traditional Authority Mpama in Chiradzulo spent the festive season behind bars at Wenela Police…
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Second-class citizens in the city
His job was to ensure that Blantyre City Council (BBC) accords residents quality services ceaselessly. But eight years after the…
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Why only us? Neno cries for a good road
Three years ago, there were only three island districts that were isolated in the country. These three districts were disconnected…
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Can city councils manage waste disposal?
Harry Makoti (55) of Chiwere Village, Traditional Authority Machinjiri in Blantyre is a victim of irresponsible waste disposal at Machinjiri’s…
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Any lessons from past demonstrations in Malawi?
Malawians risk sacrificing freedom of demonstration on bloody alters of history—and democracy is a major loser. “The past is for…
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