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Airtel calls for liberalization of telecom industry in Africa
Airtel Malawi has called regulatory bodies within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) for more deregulation to allow more liberalization of the industry. Speaking in Lilongwe on Wednesday...
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MACRA justifies mobile operators’ price hikes
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has justified the price hikes by mobile operators in the country. Macra’s Communications Officer, Clara Mulonya said that the price hike by phone...
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Reserve Bank of Malawi managing floated Kwacha -report
Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) spokesperson Ralph Tseka has said much as it is a floating exchange rate regime determined by the market forces, the central bank is managing the currency by intervening...
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Evelyn Mwapasa new CEO at Society of Accountants in Malawi
An accounts expert Evelyn Mwapasa, former consultant for the World Bank, has been appointed as new Chief Executive Office of the Council of the Society of Accountants in Malawi (Socam) effective...
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Malawi to face massive power load shedding during Easter -ESCOM
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), the southern African nation’s sole supplier of power has announced it will implement massive load shedding during Easter season from 28th March to...
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Malawi top forex generator tobacco revenue up -TCC
Official statistics compiled by the Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) have shown that Malawi’s tobacco revenue and volume at the national level have doubled in the second week of trading the leaf,...
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India to Malawi: Grow more chick peas and soya, we’ll buy
Indian High Commissioner to Malawi Duvvuri Rao has urged Malawi to grow more chick peas and soya as there’s a readily available market for the crops in India. Duvvuri said India is one of the biggest...
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Vendor wins grand prize in Airtel Malawi Timaitha promotion
A Mchinji based second-hand cloth (Kaunjika) vendor, Yohane Mshanga has emerged the winner of the grand prize in Airtel Malawi’s Timaitha SMS Promotion which had over 25 million entries. Airtel Malawi...
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Dairibord Zimbabwe stays put in Malawi despite profits decline
The Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited (DZL) has said it is not pulling out its investment in Malawi despite recording a 41 percent decline in profitability on the Malawi market. DZL investment recorded the...
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Malawi improves on citizen access to budget information-Survey
Malawi has slightly improved citizen access to budget information over the past two years, according to a major biennial report, 2012 Open Budget Survey (OBS) by International Budget Partnership. The...
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Privitisation Commission Malawi now called Public Private Partnership
The Privitization Commission of Malawi has changed its name to Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC). PPPC board chair Alex Chitsime said following the enactment of PPP Act, its projects will be...
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Lipenga defends K1.6bn cars for Malawi ministers amid austerity measurers
Finance Minister Ken Lipenga has defended Malawi Government expenditure of K1.6 billion (about $4.1m) on a new fleet of four-wheel-drive Toyota Prado TX models for 35 ministers and their deputies amid...
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Mzuzu Coffee ponders extending production to central and southern regions of...
Mzuzu Coffee Planters Cooperative Union says it would soon establish more cooperative unions for coffee farmers in some districts in central and southern regions to boost coffee growing in the country....
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Paladin has MK3.9bn environmental bond for Malawi uranium mine -Walker
Australian Miner Paladin Energy Limited, operators of the Kayerekera Uranium Mine in Karonga district have a US$10 million Environmental Performance Bond with two commercial banks in Malawi to among...
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Airtel Malawi launches ‘Bola Kunthazi’ promotion: Grand prize Toyota Fortuner
Airtel Malawi has launched a new promotion called ‘Bola Kunthanzi’. The mega promotion , whose grand prize is a Toyota Fortuner to one lucky winner at the end of the promotion in June ; will also see...
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Malawi faces another fuel price hike
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) officials are expected to announce new fuel prices soon after the one year celebration of President Joyce Banda’s inauguration is over, Nyasa Times has learnt....
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Malawi tobacco sales register success amid challenges -TCC
Experts on the tobacco industry say the country’s on-going gold leaf marketing season continues registering success in both pricing and revenue collected despite other challenges facing the industry....
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Malawi, Mozambique agree to re-demarcate border mineral maps
As Malawi is struggling to resolve the lake border row with Tanzania, Mozambique has asked Malawi to address the issue of border demarcation immediately because Mozambique will launch a comprehensive...
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Malawian economist Mkwezalamba leaves AU: Announces Pan-African Stock Exchange
Maxwell Mkwezalamba (PhD) , Malawi’s renowned economist has stepped down as African Union (AU) Commissioner for Economic Affairs. Mkwezalamba, who has served the continental body for close to eight...
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Zambian firm bids for Malawi’s lake oil
A Zambian mining company, Kainsha Energy, registered in Lusaka in February 2012, has put in an application for an Exclusive Prospecting Licence for a block in Lake Malawi despite the fact that Malawi...
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