-
Business News
Minister commends Escom on maintenance works
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi has commended Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) on the progress…
Read More » -
Business News
Experts warn Malawi on Chinese trade dependency
Trade analysts have warned African countries, including Malawi against depending too much on trade with China, noting that the slowing…
Read More » -
Business News
Malawi receives K288bn FDI pledges
Malawi received $656 million (about K288.6 billion) foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges in the last financial year with the largest…
Read More » -
Business News
Malawi in daunting revenue projections
The Malawi Government expects to collect more money from individuals and businesses with domestic revenues to gross domestic product (GDP)…
Read More » -
Business News
15m Malawians have no access to power
About 15 million Malawians, representing 91 percent of the total population, live without electricity, putting pressure on natural resources, subduing…
Read More » -
Business News
Malawi fertiliser imports double
Fertiliser imports more than doubled between 2012 and last year, rising by about 75 percent to K125.4 billion in 2013,…
Read More » -
Business News
EIU raises inflation projection, contradicts RBM
Forecasting and advisory services provider, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), has contradicted local authorities, raising Malawi’s 2014 inflation average to 22.8…
Read More » -
Business News
Malawi mining, quarrying revenue to fall by 68 percent
Revenue from mining and quarrying, one of the country’s important sectors is expected to drop by about 68 percent to…
Read More » -
Business News
Cisanet wants MRFC replaced
Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) has said the country’s major farm input distributor, Malawi Rural Finance Company (MRFC), currently under…
Read More » -
Business News
TCC pleads with buyers to get excess tobacco
The Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has said it has to plead with buyers every year to get excess leaf from…
Read More » -
Business News
K22bn tax revenue tied in courts
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has said over K22 billion is tied in court cases and has since proposed the…
Read More » -
Business News
Cross-border transactions down 33.7%
Value of cross-border transactions fell by about 33.7 percent in August compared to July while average volume declined by 4.3…
Read More » -
Business News
Macra setting up fund for rural areas
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) plans to set up a Universal Access Fund (UAF) to help telecommunication operators provide services…
Read More » -
Business News
CDHIB Prime Rewards doubles customer base
CDH Investment Bank (CDHIB) has said the ongoing Prime Rewards promotion that has been running since June 2, has doubled…
Read More » -
Business News
Malawi T-bills rates plunge
Treasury bills (T-bills) rates—one of the determinants of commercial bank interest rates—fell on all tenors in August compared to the…
Read More » -
Business News
Discipline, grievance management enhances productivity—Ecam
Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (Ecam) has said proactive discipline and grievance handling enhances productivity while a human resource expert…
Read More » -
Business News
MRA revenue four percent below target
Against a backdrop of the zero aid budget and budget support freeze, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) missed the August 2014…
Read More » -
Business News
New law to police warehouse receipts
Government is set to regulate the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) by coming up with a law governing its operations. In…
Read More » -
Business News
Village banks claim 16 percent savings
At least 1.6 million adults, approximately 16 percent, save through Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA)—village banks—while the number of…
Read More » -
Editors Pick
Government to allocate tenders to SMEs
The Ministry of Industry and Trade says it has asked other government ministries to allocate about 30 percent of tenders…
Read More »