Feature of the Week
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Learning amid Covid-19
Emily Leston was devastated when coronavirus disrupted learning on March 31. “Every day, children ask me why they aren’t going…
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Finding sustainable alternatives in fighting Covid- 19
After seeing the rise in demand for re-usable face masks, trainers and other members of staff at Dowa Development Aid…
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Covid steals tobacco farmers’ big dreams
During his 15 years as a Malawian tobacco farmer, Boniface Namate has had to overcome many difficulties growing the plant…
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Warning: Women at work
Dawn has just broken in Jingani Village in Rumphi and villagers are emerging from their homes. As morning chores typified…
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Disability rights warrior
Last November, rights activist Rachel Kachaje was happy when Stellenbosch University resolved to give her an honorary doctorate in recognition…
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Orange potatoes tackle malnutrition
Dorica Samson knew what malnutrition can do to poor children when her frail son, Chrispin, was bedridden at a rural…
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Lulanga’s stitch in time
A dusty footpath to Nelson Lulanga’s place at Chipoka in Salima District looks less trodden with dry leaves forming a…
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Deported as Covid spreads
Amid an increasingly fierce scramble for jobs and falling crop yield from degraded soils, busloads of young Malawians keep fleeing…
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Forgotten inmate walks free
Last week, on a sunny Tuesday, a frail-looking 41-year-old finally walked to freedom after “wasting 12 years” at Mzuzu Prison…
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Sharing mining gains
As mining firms reap the benefits of Malawi’s emerging extractive sector, dust refuses to settle on local communities’ petitions for…
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Fatherhood and the Coronavirus Pandemic
For the past seven months, the world has been mystified by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which has devastated world economies,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Expanding higher learning
As online learning becomes easy to reach, it is becoming old-fashioned for young Malawians to brag about their ‘university corridors’…
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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…
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Community policing extraordinaire
To some, he is the defender. To others, he is the enemy. But to communities in Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya…
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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…
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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…
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