In every K100 spent in Malawi’s annual health budget, donors are responsible for K62 while government puts in about K25, it has emerged. Effectively, the donors’ 62 percent contribution of the total healthcare expenditure compared to the Malawi Government’s estimated 25 percent, as revealed by Minister of Health and Population Atupele Muluzi at the joint…

President Peter Mutharika has picked an unnecessary fight with human rights defenders and he does not sound brave, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes. Last week, the President jetted back from New York looking much fitter than he was on a similar touchdown last year when he could not lift his right hand. Nine days…

Newly formed United Transformation Movement (UTM) will have to wait longer to know the status of its registration as a political party as the High Court has reserved its ruling to an unspecified date. Presiding judge John Chirwa, while acknowledging the urgency of the case at hand, said that after hearing submissions from lawyers representing…

The 2018 Oxfam and Development Finance International Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index has ranked Malawi among the best 10 countries in the world in designing progressive tax systems aimed at reducing inequalities. The report shows that Australia, Denmark and South Africa occupy the first three positions in that order, with Malawi on position seven…