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Power investors need guarantees—Matola

Power investors need guarantees—Matola

International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme restricts government from providing guarantees to potential power investors, Minister of Energy and Mining Ibrahim…
RBM for financial literacy in schools

RBM for financial literacy in schools

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has engaged an extra gear to ensure that financial literacy is instilled in school…
New technology to lower maize seed price

New technology to lower maize seed price

A new technology, Maize Doubled Haploid Facility, which can help companies breed maize seed varieties in a short space of…
Cash-gate affects SMEs—Mlombwa

Cash-gate affects SMEs—Mlombwa

The Capital Hill cash-gate will adversely affect indigenous businesses because government is the largest institution that procures services and products…
MRA to collect K10BN during VCW

MRA to collect K10BN during VCW

The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) plans to collect close to K10 billion ($25 million) during the three-month Voluntary Compliance Window…
A money laundering afterthought

A money laundering afterthought

Even though I have been “baptised” in the profession of national accounts statisticians, certain things   still baffle me.  I am…
JTI for sound policy and regulatory environment

JTI for sound policy and regulatory environment

JTI Leaf Malawi Limited says it is keen to support processes aimed at strengthening policy and regulation affecting its operating…
TNM pays first claim on Moyo cover

TNM pays first claim on Moyo cover

TNM has paid K550 000 (US$1 486) to Morton Mwafulirwa of Rumphi to cover funeral expenses for his deceased dear…
Inflation drop puzzles economist, consumers

Inflation drop puzzles economist, consumers

Malawi’s year-on-year inflation rate which has dropped to 21.7 percent in September 2013 has stunned an economist and consumers who…
Wash builds toilets, boreholes in Ntchisi

Wash builds toilets, boreholes in Ntchisi

The World Vision Water and Sanitation Hygiene (Wash) project in the Nthondo Area Development Programme (ADP)  in Ntchisi has  built…
Banks, govt confer on solution to power shortage

Banks, govt confer on solution to power shortage

Standard Bank in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy, Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the World…
Govt owes Saccos over K300m

Govt owes Saccos over K300m

Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (Muscco) says government is yet to remit over K300 million (US$810 810) of…
‘Partnerships important for wealth creation’

‘Partnerships important for wealth creation’

Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Trade Alex Gomani says partnerships are very important for any country to…
Tanzanian firm lays fibre optic cable

Tanzanian firm lays fibre optic cable

A Tanzania telecommunications firm, SimbaNet has won a $20 million [K8 billion] World Bank-funded Regional Communication Infrastructure Programme Malawi (RCIPMW)…
Cear to rehabilitate Limbe-Nkaya-Nayuchi line

Cear to rehabilitate Limbe-Nkaya-Nayuchi line

Malawi Government has reviewed the concession agreement with Central East African Railways (Cear) due to change in the current environment…
Experts meet to discuss climate change in Ethiopia

Experts meet to discuss climate change in Ethiopia

Experts and stakeholders are meeting in the Ethiopian capital city, Addis Ababa, starting Monday, for a conference on Climate Change and…
Teveta launches 5-year strategic plan

Teveta launches 5-year strategic plan

Technical Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education Training Authority (Teveta) on Thursday last week launched its five-year strategic plan at Mount Soche…
The Chinese strategy to dominate Africa

The Chinese strategy to dominate Africa

Officials in China are becoming increasingly apprehensive about the rise in the use of the westward corridor to export oil,…
Consumers to report anti-competitive practices —CFTC

Consumers to report anti-competitive practices —CFTC

Competition and Fair Trading Commission (CFTC) has called on consumers in the country to report trading practices that might prevent…
MW Airlines rollout time beyond us—PPPC

MW Airlines rollout time beyond us—PPPC

The Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC) says the current process to have Malawian Airlines Limited rollout its services is technical…
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