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Charles Pensulo

Charles Pensulo is a freelance journalist based in southern Africa

July 2024

  • Olympians, from left to right, Husnah Kukundakwe; Taonere Banda and Kishmala Talat.

    Beating the odds: three Olympic sportswomen on overcoming poverty, mockery – and small swimming pools

    In the second part of our focus on the run-up to the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced mockery, abuse and a lack of resources to compete for their countries in their chosen fields

October 2023

  • A man seen on a beach bent over a fishing net.

    Malawi swelters in record heat with temperatures nearly 20C above average

    Climate crisis blamed for extreme heat in African country, which has recorded temperatures of 43C

July 2023

  • One more child gets the lifesaving jab as part of the mass vaccination programme in Malawi.

    Polio scare hits Malawi with 17 possible cases, just as huge vaccine drive ends

    Cyclone Freddy cited as contributing factor in feared new outbreak that follows inoculation of 8 million children

March 2023

  • Healthcare workers move the body of a man from a makeshift mortuary into a vehicle.

    Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak

    The disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system

December 2022

  • A midwife listens to an unborn baby's heartbeat at Mauwa Health Centre labour ward, in Chiradzulu, southern Malawi

    ‘Bring your own syringe’: Malawi’s medical supplies shortage at crisis point

    A lack of essential drugs and equipment is causing health centres to close, while critics accuse the government of complacency

November 2022

  • Forensic investigators remove bodies

    Ethiopians found in Malawi mass grave thought to have suffocated

    Bodies tentatively identified as adults being secretly transported to South Africa on perilous ‘southern route’

October 2022

  • Five women sit talking next to buckets of tomatoes in a large open area

    ‘Everything’s gone up’: soaring inflation hits Malawi’s market trade

    Farmers, entrepreneurs and sellers are struggling as rises in fuel and fertiliser prices make it harder to cover costs
  • The mass grave in Mtangatanga Forest Reserve in the nothern district of Mzimba.

    More bodies, thought to be of Ethiopian migrants, found in mass grave in Malawi

    Bodies of four men, believed to be en route to South Africa, found less than a mile from where 25 bodies were exhumed in Mzimba
  • A woman looks out through a window held in place by the remains of a wall

    ‘Failing to cope’: Malawi faces surge in young people with mental ill health

    A lack of services and psychiatrists, plus a fear of being stigmatised, can make it hard to get help

June 2022

  • Two Ugandan women carry a bundle of waste plastic along a red dirt road.

    From bricks to bags to eco art: six innovative uses for plastic waste around the world

    From upcycled school benches in India to plant pots in Peru, people are finding enterprising and ingenious solutions to a perennial problem

April 2022

  • A woman looks over Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi.

    ‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp

    Hundreds at Dzaleka camp told they are no longer eligible for food supplies from the World Food Programme

March 2022

  • A health worker gives drops from an oral vaccine to a child

    Millions of children to be vaccinated for polio in Africa after Malawi detects case

    First case of wild polio detected in Malawi for 30 years prompts emergency rollout of vaccinations in five African countries

January 2022

  • People in Mocuba, Mozambique, watch as water levels rise in Licungo River after Ana made landfall.

    At least four killed after tropical Storm Ana hits Malawi and Mozambique

    Search and rescue operations under way as dozens reported missing in region battered by extreme weather in recent years

November 2021

  • Mothers carrying children and waiting at rural health clinic

    Pregnant women at risk in Malawi as drug shortage prevents caesareans

  • Overstone Kondowe in Malawi’s parliament in Lilongwe after being sworn in as an MP. He calls himself ‘an overambitious person – that’s why I had the courage to contest.’

    Malawian campaigner makes history as country’s first elected MP with albinism

August 2021

  • Elephant, Chitwan national park, Nepal

    ‘No one comes here any more’: the human cost as Covid wipes out tourism

  • China Kunming Football 2020 Cfa Women’s Super League Wuhan vs Jiangsu - 29 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (10759262k) Tabitha Chawinga of Jiangsu Suning vies for the ball during the third round match between Wuhan Chedu Jianghan University and Jiangsu Suning at the 2020 Chinese Football Association (CFA) Women’s Super League in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Aug. 29, 2020. China Kunming Football 2020 Cfa Women’s Super League Wuhan vs Jiangsu - 29 Aug 2020

    ‘A violation’: football star recounts having to strip during match to prove she was female

June 2021

  • People take part in Malawi’s first Pride parade in Lilongwe

    Rights and freedom
    Malawi’s LBGTQ+ community celebrates first Pride parade

    Homosexuality remains illegal in the country, where a conviction carries a jail term of up to 14 years

April 2021

  • In Lilongwe, representatives from the Center for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives present a petition to the city council.

    Protests across Malawi as mobile phone charges soar

  • Nine-year-old Gift Phiri with stoves he has made

    Nine and looking after the family: the children working to survive in Malawi

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