Weekend Investigate
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Giving girls second chance
In September 2020 Anne Malengenya from M’biza Village, Traditional Authority Chikumbu in Mulanje District, became pregnant. She was in Standard…
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Poverty, complicity hampers human trafficking fight
In August last year, police intercepted the trafficking of 31 people to Mozambique. The victims, all Malawians, included 17 children…
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School-in-box brings hope to learners
Natural disasters have several long-lasting effects on already vulnerable communities. In some cases, they lead to school delinquencies as poverty-stricken…
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Surviving the lean season
The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee estimates that 2.6 million people in the country require food aid to beat the prevailing…
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Unity in Diaspora rescues Malawian on SA streets
Samma Kazembe was going about his business on Saturday October 4 this year in Pretoria, South Africa where he is…
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Fertilising further poverty through AIP mess
In the premises of Paramount Commodities shop at Mponela Township in Dowa District, some 34 people are lying on the…
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Conundrum of nutrition, culture and politics in Malawi
October 30 is commemorated as the Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security. Apart from the fact that this day…
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Girl snatched from claws of marriage
When Miriam’s name missed not only from the list of those selected to study nursing at Kamuzu College of Nursing,…
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Licence for sale: Mining deal embroiled in corruption
While communities around mining sites remain trapped in poverty, allegations have emerged, pointing to higher corrupt practices with investors and…
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Bumper harvest from diversity
Under the glorious shades of natural trees on the sliding plateaus of village headman Robert in Kameme, Chitipa, hang bulky…
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The poor shortchanged in human trafficking prevention efforts
Malawi is a source, destination and transit country for human and sex trafficking. But the country, where almost 80 precent…
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Thoughts on agriculture sector reforms in Malawi
Malawi needs to undertake institutional and structural reforms in agriculture to accelerate the pace of development taking place in the…
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Covid-19 knocks Malawi’s tourism on to sickbed
As the global tourism suffers the slings and arrows of coronavirus, the local tourism sector is in a hospital ward…
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Hiding behind laws to accomplish digital surveillance
For close to 10 years now, the Malawi government has been gathering personal information of its citizens and stockpiling it…
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Keeping runaway police in check
Police reforms have another chance to go beyond change of name for the benefit of Malawians frustrated by men and…
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‘MBC needs real change’
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has made a predictable turn, halting praise and worshipping of defeated President Peter Mutharika’s regime in…
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Who will police captured police?
The new broom in charge of the police system faces a tough task to tidy up the security agency only…
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Soldiers’ epic march on impunity
It takes a strong institution to protect citizens marching against their rulers. The assignment can be tougher for security agencies…
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Clean cooking for tidy markets
Not all that stinks is garbage. Your waste could be an innovator’s raw material or goldmine. At Tsangano Market in…
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Timely relief for Malawi’s top primary school
It still boggles a myriad minds. It remains a jigsaw puzzle to many. Many are left with their mouth agape…
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