Malawi will be among the 27 developing countries to benefit from a £200 million (about K198 billion) programme funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) to enhance family planning services. In Malawi, the DfID flagship Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (Wish) will be implemented by Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) and…

  At a time power blackouts are crippling industrial production, Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Aggrey Masi has challenged commercial banks to consider financing local firms to implement sustainable energy projects. The minister said on Tuesday in Lilongwe during the Regional Energy Regulatory Association (Rera) for Southern African Conference that the projects could…

Political parties and commentators have given varying reasons for the dwindling voter turnout trends in the country’s national elections from a record 93 percent in the 1999 General Elections. While political analysts attribute the trend to waning excitement among voters after the country adopted plural politics in 1993, some political parties, notably those in opposition,…

President Peter Mutharika has challenged the University of Malawi (Unima) to explore alternative sources of financing instead of banking on government subvention. The President, who is Chancellor of Unima, made the appeal during Unima’s 2018 fourth cohort graduation ceremony at Bingu International Convention Centre (Bicc) in Lilongwe on Wednesday. He said it was time institutions…

Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has painted a gloomy picture for the country’s power situation, stating that the current power outages are here to stay in the short-term. During a news conference on the status of the country’s electricity generation and supply in Blantyre on Wednesday, Escom chief executive officer Allexon Chiwaya said Malawi…