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Today is the World Wetlands Day. Our Contributor CHARLES MKOKA highlights the benefits communities surrounding Lake Chilwa are reaping from...

Just 85 kilometres south of Malawi’s capital, the impact of global warming is abundantly clear. Hunger is becoming increasingly common...

Natural disasters have several long-lasting effects on already vulnerable communities. In some cases, they lead to school delinquencies as poverty-stricken...

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Madalitso Kazombo first started feeling like he had fever and malaria. But later, the problem...

It is Saturday morning at Ndamera Health Centre in Nsanje District. Senior community health nursing technician Evelyn Zambasa is standing...

For Chisomo Banda, 23, and many of her friends in Lilongwe, news about Covid-19 was just like a rumour of...

It was a frank talk which inevitably turned emotional. Who would want their child traded for marriage just for survival?...

For many young Malawians, higher education is a dream that never comes true largely due to limited bed space in...

The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee estimates that 2.6 million people in the country require food aid to beat the prevailing...

Women opposed to long trips to get children vaccinated in Lilongwe have constructed a clinic in a thick forest that...

On a sunny Friday morning, 14- year-old Clara Charles and a dozen other learners at Namiyala Primary School in Nsanje...

To many Malawians, Balaka is a storied town on a hill. It is a district that has kept releasing music...

Instead of enjoying her childhood like any normal child, Rezina Luntha, 18, from Mbotola Village, Traditional Authority Malenga in Ntchisi...

Breastfeeding, initiated within the first hour of birth, is one of the most powerful practices for promoting child survival and...

It has been difficult for pupils at Masakapende Primary School in Balaka District to learn during the rainy season. The...

It was very hot in Chikwawa on that Sunday morning when a group of journalists joined Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital’s...

The African Institute for Development Policy (Afidep) is a renowned regional think-tank focusing on research and policy. It is headquartered...

Mary Basikolo from Traditional Authority Zulu (T/A) in Kasungu District has to work tirelessly to make ends meet for her...

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of society in the country, including agricultural extension services whose nature of work...

Dyless Mkumbira from Mchinji District ventured into business when her university dreams were shattered due to poverty. She says: “My...