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Government says aid suspension created imbalance

Government says aid suspension created imbalance

Director of Debt and Aid Management in the Ministry of Finance, Peter Simbani, says the decision by the donors to…
Tourism ministry urges Malawians to invest in water transport

Tourism ministry urges Malawians to invest in water transport

Malawi is missing an opportunity to improve its attractiveness to foreign tourists due to lack of activity taking place along…
Earnings expectation drives share prices gain

Earnings expectation drives share prices gain

Half-year earnings expectation has helped to drive share price gain on Nico Holdings Limited and TNM plc, according to NBM…
CfSC troubled by soaring cost of living

CfSC troubled by soaring cost of living

The Lilongwe-based Centre for Social Concern (CfSC) says it is troubled by the ever-souring cost of living gripping the country…
Process the green leaf, Taml urges smallholder tea growers

Process the green leaf, Taml urges smallholder tea growers

The Tea Association of Malawi (Taml), a grouping of large tea estate growers, has urged smallholder growers to graduate from…
RBM calls for export financing

RBM calls for export financing

The country’s commercial banks need to accommodate the needs of the private sector particularly on financing production of exports to…
Malawi fuel storage capacity improves

Malawi fuel storage capacity improves

Malawi’s fuel storage capacity has improved from about ten days cover to about 15 days cover, a latest survey conducted…
Bumpy ride as tobacco earnings slump

Bumpy ride as tobacco earnings slump

Malawi’s economy should brace for a bumpy ride following projections by the Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) that this year’s earnings…
MICROFINANCE SUPERVISION MINIMISES RISKS—RBM

MICROFINANCE SUPERVISION MINIMISES RISKS—RBM

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has said regulations and supervision of microfinance institutions opens up commercial funding opportunities and…
White spaces project on track—Macra

White spaces project on track—Macra

The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has said the rolling out of the Television White Spaces (TVWS) project, currently in…
Mzuzu Flea Market ready, opens July 1—CEO

Mzuzu Flea Market ready, opens July 1—CEO

The long-awaited Mzuzu Flea Market is almost completed and is expected to be opened on July 1, Mzuzu City Council…
Tea pluckers get peanuts—Report

Tea pluckers get peanuts—Report

Tea pluckers—labourers who pick leaves for one of the most loved beverages in the world and one of Malawi’s major…
Malawi urges smallscale miners to form cooperatives

Malawi urges smallscale miners to form cooperatives

Malawi government, through the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, has pleaded with artisanal and smallscale miners in the…
Malawi FDI slumps 10% to $118m

Malawi FDI slumps 10% to $118m

Malawi underperformed in the attraction of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2013, luring about $118 million (K48 billion) about 10…
Kanyika samples analysis starts in China

Kanyika samples analysis starts in China

Globe Metals and Mining, an Australian-listed mining firm exploring for niobium at Kanyika in Mzimba, says the mine’s metallurgical pilot…
Standard Bank appoints Harawa as board chair

Standard Bank appoints Harawa as board chair

Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE)-listed Standard Bank Limited has appointed Rex Harawa as its new chairperson, taking over from Alex Chitsime…
PCL eyes power generation sector

PCL eyes power generation sector

Press Corporation Limited (PCL)—a company that holds shares in entities including Puma Energy, National Bank of Malawi (NBM), Malawi Telecommunications…
Market shows confindence in government securities

Market shows confindence in government securities

Higher yields and political certainty has heightened the market’s confidence on government securities with recent applications on treasury bills (T-bills)…
Mzuzu tobacco growers contented with prices

Mzuzu tobacco growers contented with prices

Tobacco growers from the Northern Region are all smiles due to good prices the leaf is fetching at Mzuzu Auction…
MUTHARIKANOMICS: WILL IT BREAK MALAWI’S VICIOUS CYCLES?

MUTHARIKANOMICS: WILL IT BREAK MALAWI’S VICIOUS CYCLES?

It is not only the President Peter Mutharika’s voice that strikingly resembles his late brother, former president late Bingu wa…
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