Off the Shelf
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Sacrifice for some, relief for others
Malawi is negotiating a new programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), built around familiar demands: controlling government spending, reducing…
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Once upon a time paraffin reigned supreme
Put the current fuel scarcity aside for a moment; paraffin appears to have vanished from our filling stations years ago.…
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Four Fs, five excuses
Malawi’s economic report card is being marked by the wrong people. Government sees four Fs and calls it progress: food,…
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The one-year itch
One year into the DPP’s return to power, Malawi has a rather awkward anniversary present for its government: the same…
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The Republic of ‘Come Back Tomorrow’
There is a peculiar country somewhere between the Ministry of Finance and the hospital pharmacy where medicines mysteriously disappear. Welcome…
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Forex has recovered. Where is it?
The dollars are reportedly back. The only problem is that nobody seems to have told the people looking for them.…
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How Suleman revived the ‘Mwanayu Ngwanga’ alarm
This is Malawi, where the separation of powers is less a constitutional pillar and more of a chaotic, mud-splattered spectator…
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State-run media are governing party puppets
Welcome to the democratic wonderland of Malawi, where the State broadcast machinery possesses the miraculous ability to make the country’s…
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Plug Malawi in: We cannot negotiate in the dark
In the grand, dimly lit theatre of Malawian infrastructure, a new tragi-comedy has taken centre-stage: ‘The case of the missing…
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Private trips, public questions
There was a time when South Africa was simply our neighbour. Today, it seems to have become Malawi’s unofficial State…
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