CAF has increased annual grants to its member associations, including Football Association of Malawi (FAM) from $100 000 (about K74 million)  to $200 000 (about K148 million). According to a statement released by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the increment  was approved by its executive committee during a meeting held in Cairo, Egypt last…

Rising maize prices have pushed up March 2019 inflation rate by 1.4 percentage points to 9.3 percent from the 7.9 percent the previous month, NSO figures show. Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) spokesperson Mbane Ngwira yesterday attributed the rise to seasonal trends in the price of the staple grain. National Statistical Office (NSO) figures show…

Tanzania President John Magufuli will pay a two-day visit to Malawi from Wednesday this week where, among other things, he will take part in the opening of the tobacco market season. This will be Magufuli’s first official visit to Malawi since he was elected as the neighbouring country’s president in 2015. Magufuli has made several…

Treasury has released K3 billion to the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) and K1 billion to Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development as part of government response to floods that hit the country last month.  This funding comes barely a month after the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development released another K1.3…

 Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM have turned down a request by MBC to submit prerecorded campaign messages for airing on the station. The two opposition political parties have since declared loss of trust in the public broadcaster, which they say is highly compromised and biased towards the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). By law…