Feature of the Week

Some communities near Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, have realised the ills of wantonly felling trees—and they are now putting things right....

The $350.7 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact in Malawi, which ended in September 2018, was designed to boost the...

For the past three years, Regina Charles, 33, from Mathithi Village in Ntcheu used to walk eight kilometres to fetch...

Stanford Phapha, 85, has survived several floods that severely ravaged Nyachikadza, a low-lying setting in the Shire Valley district of...

At Lengwe National Park in Chikwawa, game ranger Shaibu Kadewere nostalgically recalls truckloads of tourists coming to see a diversity...

Blessings Mapemba knows the numbing destruction of drug and alcohol abuse among the youth. The 20-year-old man based in Chilomoni...

GRESHAM NGWIRAContributor In the past weeks, the country has witnessed a series of violent incidents in some districts. Regrettably, some...

Efforts to protect girls from risky practices, including child marriages and teen pregnancies, remain fragile with lax law enforcement of...

Inkosi Mabulabo receives profound respect in Mzimba South, where he gets informed about every childbirth and funeral. In his territory,...

Many farmers surrounding Malawi’s postcard tea estates struggle for safe water, but some 12 000 members of Sukambizi Association Trust...

Massive rocks scattered in the middle of Nkhate River, which burst its banks during severe flooding caused by Cyclone Idai...

The livelihood of many Malawians along the shoreline Lake Malawi hinge on fishing. Some are fishers while others are fish...

Senior Chief Chikumbu of Mulanje sounds overwhelmed. Recently, she asked youth networks in her rural locality to conduct a simple...

On May 31, three people in Dowa, including a 56-year-old chief, were murdered by a crowd accusing them of practising...

Malawi’s return to democracy in 1993 gave rise to calls for decentralisation. Many Malawians prefer calling it “power to the...

At Nsungwi market in Area 25, Lilongwe, Elida, a female sex worker, is at risk of contracting coronavirus because she...

It’s around 3am at Kauma, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe.  Eluby Matengula, in her late 50s,...

A round 1970, the then five-year-old Paul Nthambazale was fond of playing in a nearby forest with his two older...

U-Reporters show faith leaders how technology can help eliminate practices that harm children’s rights, health and chances in life, writes...

Death is inescapable, but everyone will do their best to delay the inevitable end. The desperate rush to stay clear...