Feature of the Week
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Risking lives for animals
Looking after famous animals that bring tourists from far and wide is no pleasant game. JAMES CHAVULA writes. ————————————— It’s…
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Exploring benefits of tourist centres
In this series, Our Reporter Albert Sharra concludes exploring how protected areas can benefit surrounding communities. Five years ago…
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CAN federalism SOLVE unequal development?
In this last part of the federalism series, PROFESSOR DANWOOD CHIRWA argues that federalism is not the answer to unequal…
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Curbing early marriages the Mulanje way
Fifteen-year-old Ellen Namaona got into marriage last year. The orphaned girl, who comes from Namphungo village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Juma…
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Early marriages: A thorn to Malawi girls’ education
Talking to 16-year-old Memory Kalambo from the slums of Salisbury lines in Mzuzu about returning to school is like trying…
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Harnessing benefits from tourist attraction centre
Protected areas such as national parks and game reserves bring a lot of revenue to the country, but what are…
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Why most pupils cannot pass examinations
The country’s education system has been described as experiencing a downward spiral. In this article, educationist Roy Hauya looks at…
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Sacrificing daughters’ futures for wealth
At 24, Prisca Master is already a mother of three, who has been living alone for two years, following her…
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Frowns of Karonga Nyungwe
Lack of potable water still affects people of Karonga, especially in Karonga Nyungwe Constituency. Why is the area lagging behind?…
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Wonders of Malawi’s potholing farming system
Three years ago today, Mable Msukwa, 20, a teaching student at Amalika TTC in Thyolo—Southern Region of Malawi— then had…
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Women unite against effects of HIV/AIDS
Among the Chewa, Alinafe means God is with us. However, some women at Mponela say it is a beacon of…
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Survivors saving for next flood
Some Karonga residents are making hay while the sun shines, pooling their savings in anticipation for ruinous effects in the…
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Overcoming myths about mosquito nets
The Shire Valley has always been infested with mosquitoes so much so that malaria cases became a norm other than…
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Tracing the genesis of slums
Slums in cities, experts say, are not born. They argue with conviction that they are made by human decisions. But…
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Leading from the front in malaria fight
The Shire Valley has always been infested with mosquitoes so much so that malaria cases became a norm other than…
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Fertiliser trees for soil redemption
It is a bright hot sunny day, but Moses Shonga is taking a jolly walk in his maize field while…
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‘Malawi needs to do more to advance education’
I am writing this piece from the heart; a heart filled with despair seeing a generation of uneducated children in Malawi.…
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Is compulsory education the answer?
Section 13 of Malawi’s Revised Education Act (2012) says provision of primary education in government schools shall be free of…
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Uprooting fistula in Mangochi
Florence Kassim, 20, from Mpima Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mponda in Mangochi has no kind words for fistula. She lost…
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MHC, Salisbury Line tussle over septic tanks
Prince Phiri, seven, with his younger brother, Junior, five, have not known plastic toys in their lives. All they have…
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