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Signs MoU with the Ministry of Education to support the improvement of foundational learning outcomes and praises Malawi’s ‘leading role’ in solving the learning crisis The Human Capital Africa (HCA) team, led by founder Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has completed a seven-day mission to Malawi to formally launch the Malawi Foundational Learning Scorecard, an accountability and […]
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By Charles Mpaka In Sonjeka village in Mulanje district, which lies on the border with Mozambique in southern Malawi, destroyed crop fields stretch almost interminably after floods ripped through them when Tropical Cyclone Freddy pounded the country. Charles Mpaka One of those fields lying in waste with its drying maize stalks flattened to the ground, if […]
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By Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera “I was blind, but now I see.” This is what Vainesi, from Salima District in Central Malawi, said after surgery to treat trachoma. A mother of three, Vainesi had been unable to work or provide for her family once the disease began to affect her eyesight. Vainesi is one of millions of […]
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By Charles Mpaka On March 3, 2022, Malawi declared a cholera outbreak after a district hospital in the southern region reported a case. This was the first case in the 2021 to 2022 cholera season. That single case was a warning for what would become Malawi’s worst cholera outbreak in decades. For nearly a year now, […]
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As the world’s leading monthly journal for the banking industry, The Banker’s awards programme recognises industry wide excellence within the global banking community. Standard Bank has been announced as this year’s Bank of the Year for both South Africa and Malawi. After receiving over 1000 applications from banking institutions across the world, the judging panel […]
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The National Health Financing Dialogue provides an opportunity to align stakeholders on domestic health financing reforms needed to service healthcare provision in line with the national health and developmental agenda The Government of Malawi has convened a National Health Financing Dialogue to align stakeholders on Malawi’s path towards sustainable financing of healthcare in line with […]
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By Tsitsi Matekaire and Tara Carey It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi – one of the world’s poorest and lowest carbon-emitting countries but ranked fifth in the Global Climate Index 2021 list of nations worst affected by climate-related […]
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By Charles Mpaka One polio case is one too many, global health experts say. And when Malawi announced in February this year that it had detected a polio case in the country’s capital Lilongwe, the alarm was significant, and the response from both the government and global health partners was swift, if not frantic. Detected on […]
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By Charles Mpaka Ellena Joseph, a small-scale maize farmer in Chiradzulu District in Southern Malawi, finished preparing her field early in October. As the first rains start falling in some parts of the country, her anxiety is growing because she is yet to purchase fertiliser because she does not have any money. Joseph, 63, is one […]
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By Dennis Lupenga Malawian healthcare workers are facing challenges from all sides. More than half of healthcare facilities in Malawi are without handwashing facilities, almost two thirds have no decent toilets and almost one fifth do not have clean water on site. With cases of Covid-19 in the country continuing throughout the year, staff are working […]
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