Feature of the Week
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Community addresses child marriages
Martha Chikumbutso, 18, is one of the girls in the area of Senior Chief Liwonde in Machinga District who returned…
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Bafuta fights malnutrition
Signs were all over Bafuta Village in Mulanje South East that the community was sick. Women and children looked pale.…
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Sorting school woes wholesale
Fargrace Mikwamba, chairperson for the mother group, will tell you how thorny matters of menstruation were at Lirangwe Primary School…
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Sexual violence continues to haunt women, girls
When her parents died, Marriam Phiri from M’noloma Village, Traditional Authority Pemba in Salima, aged 12 at the time, went…
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Double standards persist
Malawi’s forests are disappearing faster than they are being replenished, but neither police barricades nor seizing charcoal is keeping the…
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Women shed dependency
Like most Malawian women, Chrissie Majanga grew up being told that a woman is only good in the kitchen and…
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Covid-19 exposes space problems in schools
When Mbayani II Junior Primary School was constructed in 2015, government and concerned stakeholders thought that this was going to…
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Saving newborn babies using social media
One Friday morning in August this year, nurse-cum-midwife Luseshelo Simwinga-Mumba set out to work as usual. She found the labour…
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Season of awards, recognitions
On October 16 this year President Lazarus Chakwera received a peace award from the London Political Summit. The same went…
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‘Stroke strikes like lightning’
High blood pressure is the leading cause of stroke, but many Malawians blame witchcraft for the sudden disruption in blood…
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Securing adolescents’ future
Children at Masidi Primary School in Liwonde, Machinga are accustomed to seeing a fellow learner breastfeeding a three-month-old baby on…
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Bare villages go greeen
Some communities near Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, have realised the ills of wantonly felling trees—and they are now putting things right.…
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Girls future looks bright!
The $350.7 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact in Malawi, which ended in September 2018, was designed to boost the…
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Easing access to water
For the past three years, Regina Charles, 33, from Mathithi Village in Ntcheu used to walk eight kilometres to fetch…
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Nyachikadza tragedy
Stanford Phapha, 85, has survived several floods that severely ravaged Nyachikadza, a low-lying setting in the Shire Valley district of…
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Wildlife parks lose admirers
At Lengwe National Park in Chikwawa, game ranger Shaibu Kadewere nostalgically recalls truckloads of tourists coming to see a diversity…
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Protecting the youth
Blessings Mapemba knows the numbing destruction of drug and alcohol abuse among the youth. The 20-year-old man based in Chilomoni…
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When mob justice targets children, the elderly
GRESHAM NGWIRAContributor In the past weeks, the country has witnessed a series of violent incidents in some districts. Regrettably, some…
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Saving girls amid Covid
Efforts to protect girls from risky practices, including child marriages and teen pregnancies, remain fragile with lax law enforcement of…
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Why should women die?
Inkosi Mabulabo receives profound respect in Mzimba South, where he gets informed about every childbirth and funeral. In his territory,…
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