Zimbabwe News Update
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Amh is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: the zimbabwe independent, a business weekly online edition. On a cold afternoon in january 2021, malawian writer and development practitioner stanley onjezani kenani sat staring at a blank computer screen, struggling to stitch together the words for his next short story. Try as he might, inspiration refused to come. He paced back and forth in the quiet of his apartment, hoping to summon his muse. But it stayed stubbornly out of reach. Then a facebook notification broke the silence. It was a desperate plea from a friend gasping for breath at kamuzu central hospital in lilongwe. There was oxygen in the ward, alright, but not a single flowmeter to connect it.
“anyone who can urgently help out there, please, please help,” the post read. That message, raw and urgent, would ignite one of malawi’s most inspiring acts of citizen-driven philanthropy during the covid-19 pandemic. Kenani was 11 000km away in ferney-voltaire, france. But distance didn’t dull his instinct to act.
