The 2019 Cosafa Under-17 Local Organising Committee (LOC) has settled for Blantyre to host the youth championship slated for September. FAM has set up the LOC, chaired by the association’s first vice-president  James Mwenda with competitions subcommittee chairperson Jabbar Alide as his deputy. From the LOC other operational committees will also be established for various…

Consultants have described the five-year National Export Strategy (NES), implemented between 2012 and 2018, as “too ambitious and over-designed”. The consultants, CITC from Mauritius, released the findings during a stakeholders’ validation workshop in Lilongwe on Monday. Their review was done between November 26 2018 and June 10 this year. Presenting the findings, Dev Chamroo, one…

The World Bank yesterday expressed concern over Malawi’s weak governance, rampant corruption and fiscal indiscipline and asked the new administration to turnaround the situation to restore confidence in the economy. The Bretton Woods institution has also expressed fear that government will likely miss its targets in the 2018/19 National Budget expiring on June 30 largely…

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its electoral alliance partners have endorsed vigils Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has organised on July 4 and 5 to force Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah to resign. MCP and its partners, People’s Party (PP) and Freedom Party (FP), have since appealed to their supporters to patronise the…

Brands resignation   calls ‘mob justice’ Insists she operated within the law Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has dismissed calls for her to resign for allegedly compromising herself and mismanaging the May 21 Tripartite Elections and purportedly favouring President Peter Mutharika. Breaking her silence in an exclusive interview with multi-award winning private broadcaster…