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Malawi

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  • Ndirande Market in southern Malawi, overlooked by mountains where, legend has it, Napolo resides. Credit: nchenga.
    ClimateCultureEditor's PicksMalawi

    A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi

    By Charles Pensulo
    August 9, 2023
    Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action. In March earlier this ...
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  • MalawiPoliticsTop story

    Malawi’s refugee problem

    By Joseph Kayira
    June 29, 2023
    The Chakwera government’s populist decision to bus all refugees into a notorious camp is fuelling xenophobia behind thinly-veiled legalities.  At the height of the ...
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  • Cyclone Freddy hit Blantyre, Malawi, hard earlier in March, with townships such as Chilobwe and Manja experienced the worst damage with severe mudslides. Credit: UNICEF Malawi/2023/Corporate Media
    ClimateMalawiTop story

    Cyclone Freddy dumped six months’ rain in six days in Malawi

    By Joseph Kayira
    March 23, 2023
    With the death toll rising and homelessness increasing, Malawi, already grappling with a major cholera outbreak, sends out an SOS. More than a week ...
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  • President Chakwera and his VP, Saulos Chilima in happier times. More recently, Chilima was arrested for corruption. Photo courtesy: Joseph Kayira
    MalawiPolitics

    What next in Chakwera’s anti-corruption crusade in Malawi?

    By Joseph Kayira
    March 8, 2023
    A scandal from the last regime forced the president to fire senior officials, suspend his VP and risk breaking the ruling coalition.    The ...
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  • A Chipatala Cha Pa Foni hotline worker giving health care advice in Malawi. Credit: Abdullah Sayidi.
    MalawiSociety

    “I did it all on a phone”: The hotline changing health outcomes in Malawi

    By Rabson Kondowe
    November 24, 2022
    Health care in Malawi faces many challenges. A free national hotline is helping address one of them. It is mid-morning in Area 23, a ...
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  • EconomyMalawi

    How a communion wine shortage gave birth to an international brand

    By Charles Pensulo
    June 8, 2022
    Linga wine is a small family business in Malawi that punches well above its weight.  On a Friday afternoon, an elderly Margaret Ngwira emerges ...
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  • UN Women's Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka greeting officers of the Malawi Police at in Lilongwe, Malawi. Credit: Maria Thundu
    MalawiSociety

    No one knows if crime in Malawi is rising or falling, not even the police

    By Tyler Holmes
    May 3, 2022
    Because the police either don’t collect or release reliable crime statistics, citizens are in the dark. In 2020, Malawi was featured in the New ...
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  • Polio vaccinations are administered in Ethiopia following an outbreak. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2013/Sewunet.
    MalawiSociety

    We need to get the campaign to eradicate polio back on track

    By Matshidiso Moeti
    March 22, 2022
    A recent case of polio in Malawi has sparked an intensive immunisation campaign in the region. In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just ...
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  • Covid-19MalawiOn Food Security & COVID19

    Malawi: COVID-19 hindered business for farmers. They found solutions.

    By Charles Pensulo
    October 8, 2021
    With access to markets and capital negatively impacted by the pandemic, people have found ways to cushion the damage.  In Blantyre, everyone in the ...
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  • ClimateEditor's PicksMalawi

    Malawi’s miracle island, where fish remain plentiful despite climate crisis

    By Charles Pensulo
    April 28, 2021
    While catches have dwindled elsewhere due to the climate crisis and over-fishing, traditional stewardship has helped Mbenje island buck the trend. Hundreds of years ...
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