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Lilongwe, Malawi - At the closure of the 2026 National Agroecology Week, one farmer from remote Dowa District, Alena Chibwazi, captured the conference room with a single message: “Agroecology in Malawi will only flourish with consistent, well‑resourced...

At the 2026 NCA-DCA Innovation Fund Pitching Event in Lilongwe in August, six finalists, from universities to rural communities, waited in silence as judges prepared to announce which bold ideas would receive support to tackle Malawi’s toughest challen...

This superstitious belief must end, and attackers must face justice, for one day we will realize we killed innocent people out of ignorance, writes Francis Botha.

Carefully holding onto the branches of a tree above raging floodwaters, Liness Zomba did the unimaginable, she helped a fellow woman deliver her baby in that dangerous situation, even as she mourned the loss of another newborn she had to bury on an ant...

In 2018, Grena’s world was shaken when her husband was jailed for poaching in the protected Vwaza Game Reserve in Rumphi District, in the northern part of Malawi. Living at the foot of the mountain bordering the reserve, her family often struggled with...

In the colorful village of Thyolo, 64-year-old Triza Selemani Mwinyima, a former nankungwi (elder woman responsible for guiding girls through initiation), sits beside a green fence, surrounded by a group eager to learn.

In Malawi’s hottest area, Ngabu, hunger often writes the same old story: A disaster strikes, NGOs rush in with aid, and communities line up to receive relief supplies. But in one farmers’ club they dared to flip the script.