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Using Neef to phase-out AIP brilliant, but
Using the National Economic Empowerment Fund (Neef) to phase out the expensive and frustrating Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) is a…
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Kagame warns of fresh genocides
Rwandan President Paul Kagame yesterday said the genocide his country experienced in 1994 could happen in another country if “enablers…
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SA, Rwanda to worktogether on DRC crisis
South Africa and Rwanda have agreed to work together to help bring peace to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
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Rwanda remembers genocide victims today
Rwanda today commemorates the 30th anniversary of genocide against the Tutsis—the darkest point of its history that has also inspired…
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That’s how law of the jungle works sweetheart!
Pre-electoral alliances and post-election coalitions of political parties in Malawi have not started with the constitutional provision of 50+1 of…
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Cut the Chaff
MCP NEC’s grotesque, self-defeating ploy
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is an entity of shifting contradictions. Just when the party does something that makes one begin…
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The sadists in our city halls
City councils in Malawi are sadists and their callousness prays on the poorest of the poor in their areas of…
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RBM and its mwamuna wa jumbo syndrome
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) is neither independent from Malawi Government nor free from International Monetary Fund (IMF). It…
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The DPP chaos in the House is APM’s fault
Maybe he was sulking or was it the sting of defeat at the hands of the Lazarus Chakwera-led Tonse Alliance…
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Chithyola’s troubling threesome economics
Three people have died while about 1 070 have been affected by natural disasters that have hit some parts of…
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Weird, very weird
As a columnist for at least 15 years, I built a readership base locally and internationally—great people who would look…
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Cut the Chaff
Centre speaks on declining social sector funding
A fortnight ago, the leadership of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), through its national disciplinary committee summoned their vice-president…
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How DPP has become its own enemy
A fortnight ago, the leadership of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), through its national disciplinary committee summoned their vice-president…
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Front Page
Breakthrough
The thaw in relations between Malawi and Mozambique under President Lazarus Chakwera has seen Maputo granting land at Nacala Port…
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Government corners fuel suppliers
Government has pounced on fuel suppliers demanding that they increase their imports through Beira in Mozambique, the shortest distance to…
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This is not the China I expected
A couple of weeks ago, I visited the People’s Republic of China for the first time. I travelled to attend…
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Front Page
Malawi, others in power deals
Malawi is finalising deals with neighbours and the Southern Africa Power Pool (Sapp) to make the country one of the…
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Let’s borrow to produce—Chakwera
President Lazarus Chakwera says he wants the Malawi Government to borrow for production and only for projects that can help…
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Gwengwe must account for dubious guarantees
Make no mistake on these deals that involve sovereign guarantees—it is the Minister of Finance who is ultimately responsible for…
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Cut the Chaff
Beware the marching Ides of stagflation
It is official. The Malawi economy is now experiencing a stag-flationary dynamic: slow growth and high inflation. In his 2023/24…
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