Richard Chirombo
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Features
In Covid path
Back to square one. Two years after, on April 2 2020, Malawi registered its first case of Covid, there seems…
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Malawi’s long, tedious walk to compulsory basic education
Sounds of joy reverberated across Malawi that Thursday afternoon, October 31 2013, when Malawi’s Parliament passed the Education Bill. This…
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Swept by floods below, exposed to the sun above
Petulo Andireya Dickson, 18, a form three learner at Thuchira Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Mulanje District, rues the…
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Stuck in two different worlds: Tax payers, collectors
The Malawian taxpayer is, if the current tax regime were to be used as a yardstick, engaged in some form…
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Gloating all the way to the goat market
Long looked down upon as a source of meat and milk, goats seem to, finally, be having their turn in…
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Columns
Nowhere to run
There, often, is no big difference between the National Budget Statement and the President’s announcement that the government has saved…
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Keeping the monkey in the box
By May 20 2022, monkeypox was akin to wildfire as cases were, like an abnormal curve, rising and rising again.…
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Keeping coronavirus at bay in prisons
As impenetrable as the prison walls appear, coronavirus still managed to get through them and, by December 20 2021, 65…
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Snail’s pace towards gender equality finish line
If 20-year-old Ireen [not real name] from Chigombe, Traditional Authority Kalonga, in Salima District had her way, she would be…
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Five months later, still stuck at floods survivors’ camp
Never, in 60-year-old Alick Simeon’s life, did he think that he would spend five months at a camp, let alone…
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