Environment
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Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10…
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Waning forests up in smoke
alawi is racing against time to save fast-vanishing trees, with half of its forest cover gone up in smoke due…
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Making Zomba green again
Zomba at the foot of Malawi’s second-largest mountain is alternatively known as the green city, but the greenness is waning…
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Kalibu unveils school forestry contest
Kalibu Academy in Blantyre has launched a win-a-tree competition to accelerate the restoration of woodlots in both public and private…
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‘Energy shift key to Africa’s future’
New evidence shows interlinked policies to accelerate transition to sustainable energy could attract new investment and grow Africa’s economy by…
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When choked rivers hit back
Malawi is sitting on a time bomb as rivers become dumpsites. This is common in townships such as the populous…
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Artists rescue polluted Mudi River
CHARLES PENSULOStaff Writer Concerns about Mudi River, which passes through Blantyre, have fallen on deaf ears. Pollution from the industries…
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Students join Mudi clean-up
The foul smell from Mudi River personifies the brunt city residents bear as people on the move, households and businesses…
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Communal zeal to save forests
The bare hills of Kunthembwe vividly spoke of decades of plunder and the community easily resolved to keep hands off…
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Questions over CoP26 climate finance goals
Early this month, President Lazarus Chakwera announced least developed countries’ demands at CoP26 in an uncompromising mood. “Fulfil your pledge,”…
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DHL supports Zalewa cleanliness
Logistics firm DHL International (Malawi) and communities around Zalewa Trading Centre in Neno on Saturday stepped forward to clean the…
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Blantyre embraces recycling
Waste Advisers and Blantyre City Council (BCC) have installed separation bins in Blantyre Main Market for easy sorting of refuse…
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Turtles tackle snail fever
Lake Malawi plays home to almost 1 000 fish species and other living things, including rare turtles secretly poached for…
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Solving Zomba’s floods, drowning problems
Once upon a time, Zomba used to be a green town, but not anymore as trees have been cut down…
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Tapping shared benefits of Songwe
For decades, the ever-changing course of the Songwe River was a cause for emotive border disputes between Malawi and Tanzania.…
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Pangolin trafficking on the rise
Malawi has detected a steep surge in pangolin trafficking since 2017 when Parliament passed strict wildlife laws to protect endangered…
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No giant poached at Majete
In the 1980s, Majete Wildlife Reserve lost its rhinos and elephants to poachers looking for their horns. However, African Parks,…
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Propagating clean energy concept
Mary Liwonde, 52, from Kandoje Village in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Symon in Neno, is worried about continued…
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Mango trees burn as forests wane
In Mulanje West, we saw people felling mango trees one by one to burn bricks. According to locals, the rush…
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Urban poor’s sanitation crisis
Two months ago, torrents that led to floods battered homes and latrines to the ground in Salisbury Township in Mzuzu.…
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