Feature of the Week
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Enduring pangs of false hopes in Balaka
The fanfare that characterised the handover of the sugarcane juice processing machinery to Chiyembekezo Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA)…
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A shadow MP from overseas
A Dutch nurse that Rumphi residents know as a benevolent ‘mzungu’ will not sit back and observe May 20 polls…
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Man in the maternity world
The country is buzzing with by-laws that aim to enhance male involvement in motherhood. But what does it mean to…
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Mphete school: A jewel on the coals
The Nacala Corridor Railway Project scheduled to complete in December 2014 has been hailed as a landmark project that will…
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A miracle in danger
Mwanza hogged the limelight on the wings of the birth of quadruplets to an unknown woman last year. But miraculous…
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Hunger overshadows Kanyika mine
What is right about breakthroughs in the mining sector? Maybe everything except the sidelining of local communities who suffer the…
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Neither boy nor girl
Josephine Chinele has seen and heard many strange things during her time as a resident of the earth, but when she…
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Perils on the rails
Frustration. Questions. Sexually transmitted diseases. These have become a by-word in Mwanza, Neno and Chikhwawa following the failure by government…
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Local knowledge aids disaster fight
They may not understand the science behind the phenomena, but people in areas prone to natural disasters have their own…
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Flip side of railway project
The ongoing construction of the $1 billion [about K420 billion] railway line passing through Chikhwawa, Neno, Mwanza and Balaka might…
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Justice at Kabuwa is justice denied
As the world is commemorating 16 Days of activism, JAMES CHAVULA explores how lack of police posts in Khosolo, Mzimba, is suppressing…
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A hand that giveth
Amadu Bwanali of Luchenza in Thyolo saw only doom and gloom lying ahead when his parents died. The skies only…
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A week in QECH’s Ward 3B
When Kondwani Kamiyala recently spent seven days at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre as a guardian, the experience…
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Who should own the agri-bank?
In countries that have agri-banks, one issue that exercises the minds of planners and policy makers is the ownership of…
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Chukudu: The golden bicycle of Congo
When Benson Linje arrived in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he was struck by the ingenuity of…
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How the law is fuelling unsafe abortion
Besides being incomplete, Malawi’s laws and policies on abortion do not talk to each other. EPHRAIM NYONDO looks at how…
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Agri-bank under the spotlight
The concept of an agricultural bank is not new in Africa and around the world. Countries such as Nigeria and…
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Circumcised men in uniform
Soldiers are not known for cowardice. Their sworn job puts them first in the firing line of the fiercest and…
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Do inheritance laws make women second-class citizens?
Much has been made of the recent legal battle in Botswana in which a group of elderly sisters successfully fought…
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Confronting a silent crisis
The country’s Muslim leaders resolved two years ago to make HIV issues a religious agenda amid global strides in getting…
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