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Stakeholders agree to enhance collaboration to address challenges facing women

Dec 16, 2025 04:42 PM Gift Asibu

Council officials and stakeholders in Nkhotakota district have agreed to improve coordination and information sharing to effectively address problems affecting women and girls in the district. Speaking on Tuesday after a dialogue between sector heads and Civil Society Organizations meant to di...

Breaking the Silence: One Woman’s Struggle and Hope After Forced Abortion

Dec 16, 2025 10:06 AM By Humphreys Bomba

All of the 24 years she lived as a girl ended when she was impregnated by her older boyfriend. Shakida (not her real name), from Lunda Village in Traditional Authority Lunda in Salima District, was forced into an abortion by her boyfriend in 2023. “I was told to consume drugs to terminate t...

Government eyes 41 million tree seedlings in the 2025/2026 National Forestry Season

Dec 11, 2025 10:11 AM Tapiwa Mbewe

The Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, through the Department of Forestry (DoF), says the 2025/2026 National Forestry Season will start on 15th December to 15th April next year. A letter signed by Secretary for Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Richard Perekamoyo, says the ...

Women with disabilities demand equal access to SRHR services

Dec 09, 2025 06:35 PM By Ivy Tunkete Mwanyongo

Victoria Supuliyano, a teacher at Chilanga School for the Blind in the area of Senior Chief Kaomba, in Kasungu district recalls how negative attitudes from health workers affected her. During one antenatal visit in 2023 a nurse remarked, “even you got pregnant,” as if pregnancy were impossibl...

Invisible Labour, Visible Loss: How Economic Abuse Is Stripping Rural Women in Nkhotakota of Their Livelihoods

Dec 09, 2025 03:22 AM By Ivy Tunkete Mwanyongo

In the quiet rice fields of Nkhotakota, the day begins long before the sun fully rises. But for many women, including 38-year-old Esinart Mwale, dawn is not just the start of work, it is a reminder of what they have lost. After months of planting and weeding side by side with her partner, she wat...

WOMEN BATTLING ILLEGAL GOLD MINES WITH POWER

Dec 08, 2025 07:27 PM Tamandani Hau

The early hours of 1st October 2025 are still haunting mining communities in Kasungu district after eight miners including boys aged 13 and 16 were trapped and killed due to a tunnel that collapsed at Kasalika gold mine. Barely some two weeks after the incident, another tragedy occurred at Chi...

Human-Wildlife Conflict Turning Women into Wildlife Defenders

Dec 07, 2025 04:12 AM By Tamandani Hau

The sun had begun dipping behind the trees in the midst of Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve at Chipungu village, 47 kilometers from Nkhotakota Boma as a 57 year old Christina Ngoleka offered her sharp welcome ready to share the experiences she has acquired in protecting her community and the wildlife....