Feature of the Week
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Is religion a threat to universal primary education?
The United Nations (UN) singles out education as one of the most powerful tools in propelling countries to higher levels…
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Nkhata Bay’s unmet needs for midwives
An award-winning midwife in Nkhata Bay is actually the face of numerous challenges the overwhelmed health workers are facing in…
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Turning a violent page
Nineteen-year-old John Chilambe had barely made himself comfortable at the middle of hardcore criminals when a messy inmate ordered him…
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Faltering dream of rural growth centres
By December 2013, four areas across the country should have worn a new face as rural growth centres. So why…
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Slippery slope of justice for women
The laws are there to protect women, but justice for victims of gender-based violence remains a dream for many. What…
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Celebrating St Patrick’s Day in Rumphi
The festival of St Patrick’s may be a remote reality in Malawi, but it is a day to remember at…
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Chikondi Suleman
In what is a track off her professional path as a lawyer, Chikondi Suleman manages a variety of beauty related…
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A boy by choice
He has endured being nicknamed Future because he was denied in the past and continues to face denial in the…
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Toils, tears, joys at Jenda
Piles of green farm produce at Jenda Trading Centre in Mzimba present a picture of abundance. But behind the tomatoes…
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Kendallgravitor: Power generator from Kendal
Kendall Kamwendo’s talents know no bounds. He has done it in music. He is a performing artist. He is an…
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Taps for grass-thatched huts
Government and the World Bank envisaged that Nthalire Rural Growth Centre would unlock “a window to sustainable development.” But taps…
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‘Malawians have never been freer than today’
At the recent Public Affairs Committee (PAC) conference, Norwegian ambassador Asbjørn Eidhammer made a wide ranging analysis of successive administrations…
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Woes of Biriwiri Farmers Cooperative
Grace Lameck chuckled as she loaded potato crisps into small packs, ready to put the product on the market. The…
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When monkeys drink from people’s cup
Ordinary talk rarely brings extraordinary results. People of Chimbotera Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba writhe in…
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Dreams die as Ovop loan hangs in the sky
Deep in the remote areas of Traditional Authority (T/A) Kanduku in Mwanza lives 42-year-old widow Mercy Jento whose future has…
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Endandweni’s same old cry
The school in hard-to-reach parts of Mzimba in the Northern Region of Malawi, has become a death trap, a crumbling…
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Mzimba women in men’s circles
It appears days a Ngoni woman was considered a second-class citizen are finally on the wane. Now women in Mzimba…
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When will Malawi export Ovop products?
Group Village Head (GVH) Chonde of Mulanje could not contain her joy when former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade,…
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Karonga’s battle of booming broods
Under the tumultuous land disputes that displaced about 140 people in Karonga, whispers of a growing populations’ scramble for limited…
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Can Ministry of Education’s bold move help return LDF to original design?
They are there—the skeletons of a failed project parachuted into a community from Capital Hill without the involvement of either…
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