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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....

Informal sector defies labor laws, hundreds trapped in labor exploitation

Dec 06, 2025 12:32 PM Humphreys Bomba

An inquiry conducted in the Lakeshore district of Nkhotakota shows that many employees in small businesses (informal sector) continue to earn below the statutory minimum wage of 105 thousand kwacha per month as per newly gazette minimum wage which came into effect on 1st June, 2025, leaving them ...

Thirty Years After Beijing: Why Digital Spaces Remain Unsafe for Malawi’s Women and Girls

Nov 26, 2025 08:08 PM By Ivy Tunkete Mwanyongo

Nearly thirty years after the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, Malawi is facing a new wave of abuse against women and girls not on the streets or in workplaces, but online. As social media becomes deeply woven into daily life, women and girls are increasingly exposed to cyber bullying, bod...

No more under water deals: women challenging lake Malawi exploitation

Nov 26, 2025 07:36 PM By Tamandani Hau

The Sun had just begun to rise above Vinthenga Beach in Nkhotakota but the shoreline was already alive with the sharp smell of fresh fish and the hum of women calling out prices as the morning catch arrived. Among them stood Mariam, a widow and mother of three who agreed only for a written co...