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Business News
Govt wants more players in cooperative sector
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism says that it wants cooperatives to be strengthened in the country by revising the…
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Business News
The good, the bad and the ugly of VSLS
Thirty-year-old Stella Tchale, a resident of Ndirande Township in Blantyre, will live to remember the fruits of belonging to…
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Business News
RBM wants VSLs in formal sector
Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) plans to incorporate village savings and loans (VSLs) or village banks into the formal financial…
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Development
Social protection taking poverty on
Even with billions invested in eradicating rural poverty, there will always be thousands going hungry-thousands more, still in poverty.…
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Front Page
Masaf 4 gets K40bn World Bank boost
The World Bank yesterday signed a $75 million (about K40.5 billion) financial agreement with the Malawi Government to cover the…
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National News
‘Nutrition, health vital for economic development’
Government says the country’s economic status can be improved if nutrition and health issues would receive necessary attention. Principal Secretary…
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Business News
Parliament allows govt to borrow K13 bn for Masaf IV
Parliament Friday allowed Government to borrow from the International Development Association (IDA) $32.8 million (about K13.12 billion) for the Masaf…
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Mudi Sacco manager receives global scholarship
Blantyre-based Mudi Sacco’s general manager is one of the recipients of the 2014 Global Women’s Leadership Network scholarships. Mudi Sacco…
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Business News
Improved SMEs skills may reduce poverty, says LDF
The Local Development Fund (LDF) said Malawi’s high poverty levels may be reduced if Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) acquire…
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Analysis
How plenty is costing Jenda
In the middle of booming businesses at Jenda Trading Centre in Mzimba are gloomy faces because the farmers’ toils and…
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MCCCI goofs on LDF
Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (MCCCI) basis for linking Local Development Fund’s (LDF) additional expenditure to cashgate…
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Business News
Beggar turns into entrepreneur
It is the early morning of December 20 2005 near the Lilongwe Bus Depot and people are rushing to their…
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National News
Beneficiaries shun minister
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Grace Maseko’s planned tour of projects under the Community Savings and Investment Promotion…
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National News
Thyolo receives K58m for Social Cash Transfer
Thyolo District Council has received over K58 million (about $145 000) for the Social Cash Transfer to be implemented in…
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Business News
Karonga residents reaping from village savings
Director of planning and development for Karonga District Council Emmanuel Bulukutu says the Community Savings and Investment Promotions (Comsip) has…
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CSOs speak against Mudzi Trust, others
Civil society organisations (CSOs) yesterday described President Joyce Banda’s Mudzi Transformation Trust initiative as a duplication of existing government projects,…
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Business News
Kasungu communities hail public works programme
Communities from Senior Chief Kaluluma, T/A Chisemphere and Sub-T/A Chisikwa in Kasungu North Friday hailed public works programme and Community…
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National News
Malawi’s conference on constituency fund March
A national conference to discuss the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is scheduled for March this year, Kalondolondo Programme manager Jephter…
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Education
Cutting on Malawi’s donor dependency
It is only two years before Malawi celebrates its golden jubilee of independence, but the country is far from being…
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