Features
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Climate change putting girls, women in Malawi at risk
Climate change exacerbates sexual and gender-based violence in numerous ways, pushing people further into poverty, enflaming conflict over depleting natural…
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The trouble of cleaning up charcoal
The devastation has been immense. Fields which were teeming with verdant crops on the banks of the Shire River are…
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Children’s education tucked in chiefs’ hands
By Maureen Kawerama, contributor: Latifa Josephy, 20, from Namaninga Village in the area of Senior Chief Bwananyambi in Mangochi, nearly…
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Disasters that brought back lost trees
Across the country, Malawians have been planting trees to clothe deforested stretches with green cover once again. But only a…
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Hope amid climatic shocks
Until 2020, 43-year-old Bertha Simenti of Chingondo II Village in Traditional Authority (TA) Ngabu in Chikwawa used to rely on…
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Rebirth of unkempt M1 Road
By Dumbani Mzale, contributor: A new lease of life is stacking on Malawi’s main motorway (M1) and in particular along…
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Dalitso’s second chance
By Isaac Salima: Seventeen-year-old Dalitso Jafalie was once one of the promising students at Nankhande Primary School in Dedza. However,…
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Cheetah reintroduction brings vultures back to the skies
Four species of critically endangered vulture have returned to a park in southern Malawi from which they disappeared more than…
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Tackling simmering Covid threat
By Wanangwa Tembo, contributor: While the world continues registering new Covid cases over two-and-a-half years since the outbreak was first…
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Gaps in Malawi’s digital progress
Malawians are increasingly expressing themselves on the internet, especially social-media platforms that provide exceptional space for people’s participation in public…
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