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Before sunrise, when the lakeshore air is still cool enough to keep the morning catch from spoiling, Anusah Banda of Kamange Village in the area of Traditional Authority Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota District is already preparing for the day's business. Like many fish sellers in the area, she...
Almost 8 months have passed after a 20 year old Grant Rajab Phiri of Chiwaula Village in Traditional Authority Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota district was allegedly shot dead by Police after it allegedly opened fire to disperse a demonstrating crowed. His family says they are still waiting f...
It is early morning in Kasungu, and as a cold wind sweeps across the fields, Masautso Mbewe, 54, makes his way to the farm he has relied on for years. For Mbewe, farming this two-acre piece of land near Lisasadzi Agricultural Experimental Station has been part of his livelihood for several...
Expectant mothers staying at maternity waiting shelters near Mchinji District Hospital are reportedly using traditional herbs believed to induce labour, a practice health official warn could endanger the lives of both mothers and newborns. An investigation by Umunthu FM has uncovered how a...
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...
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...
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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...
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