Tearful homecomming
In 2019, Madalitso Gombo, from Njolomole in Ntcheu, followed her husband who worked as a gardener in Johannesburg, South Africa....
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Youth gang up against drugs
After noticing many young people in Area 36 high on drugs and liquor, their peers decided they had to do...
Pupils electrify Mzimba school
The tale of self-made engineer Corled Nkosi, who electrified Kasangazi Village in Mzimba, has been told too many times. The...
Living positively amid Covid-19
Maurine Phiri was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 10, but the 25-year-old has lived with the virus that...
Expanding higher learning
As online learning becomes easy to reach, it is becoming old-fashioned for young Malawians to brag about their ‘university corridors’...
Two siblings miss in government hands
Margret Bwanali is a 62-year-old widow living in the remotest part of Area 24 in Lilongwe City. She is a...
Community policing extraordinaire
To some, he is the defender. To others, he is the enemy. But to communities in Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya...
Of bloodsuckers myth: Watching diplomatic row erupt!
We are in trouble! Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ben Botolo is at pains to explain to Maputo how two Mozambican...
In search for a Malawian response to Covid-19
We are living in one of those rare moments in which the rich and the poor of the global north...
Menstruation agonies of the girl child
Jennifer (not real name) is a Form Two girl at Ngowe Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) who missed classes the...
It’s not far away from Malawi
It takes just two hours for a planeload of people from South Africa to touch down in Lilongwe or Blantyre....
Which way? Federal, Rotational or Proportional?
Harriet Nyondo of Mwenechendo under Traditional Authority (T/A) Mwabulambia in Chitipa, who on October 21 2016 gave birth to her...
Giving teen mothers second chance
On September 16 2019 four teen girls arrived at Masambanjati Primary School in Thyolo South—two years after they dropped out...
Plight of children with cerebral palsy, poor women
One morning in 2013—a few months after the birth of her first child—Alice Khangiwa of Kachingwe Village, Traditional Authority Nkalo,...
Safeguarding Malawian child
Chasowa Kambala walks long distances to help children faced with various abuses. The 35-year-old volunteer, from Traditional Authority Malenga in...
Is 50+1 the answer to problems in current electoral system?
SALULE MASANGWI Contributor It is some months now since the elections were conducted on May 21 2019. The declaration of...
Irony of inclusive education in Malawi
In Malawi, all persons are accorded the right to education under Section 25 (1) of the Constitution. On the other...
Mothers feel free to breastfeed in public
Health experts indicate that breastfeeding—the feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman’s breast—gives babies the best...
Making money from bee stings
After witnessing uncontrolled tree-cutting and bushfires, a group of men and women in Nkhata Bay formed a cooperative to promote...
Man discovers niche in road project
Ketera Bikosi Kapira from Chapinga Village in Traditional Authority Mlolo’s area in Nsanje is one of the people affected by...
