Faizal Mapeto quizzed on tax evasion, MRA zero in on Karim of Lido
Public tax collector, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has interrogated Faizal Mapeto who is Chairman and CEO of Mapeto David WhiteHead and the Ginnery Factory in Salima on suspicion of tax evasion,...
View ArticleMalawi and other least developed countries fail to meet MDGs—Report
Most of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have failed to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. The LDCs are a group of 48...
View ArticleDubai’s Al Heelam Group pledges to assist Malawi traders
The Al Heelam Group in Dubai has pledged to assist Malawian farmers and traders to export their products available worldwide. The pledge by head of the Al Heelam Group Nasher Latif was made at the end...
View ArticleMalawi ministers beckon Spain investors
Malawi cabinet ministers met nine Spanish investors in Pretoria, South Africa to lure them into investing the southern African country a result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on...
View ArticleMalawi private news service Lina roll out
A new multimedia privately owned news service, Lilongwe News Agency (LINA) has been established in Malawi “to complement efforts” of other media houses by providing additional news material and other...
View ArticleAPM to launch Malawi investments projects handbook
President Peter Mutharika will on Wednesday, December 3 launch the Malawi Investments Projects Handbook, a compendium of bankable projects in respective ministries. This follows President Mutharika’s...
View ArticleTNM promo helps Chintheche school to launch ICT studies
Chintheche Community Day Secondary School in Nkhatabay is the first beneficiary of TNM’s Ufulu@50 promotion after the school received 20 refurbished computers thanks to Francis Chilowa, a TNM customer....
View ArticleUp goes sugar prices as Malawi Kwacha dip
Malawi consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets again to buy sugar following an eight percent price hike by Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited. due to the weakening kwacha against major trading...
View ArticleLivestock for resilience building capacity in central Malawi
Imani Development has embarked on 23-month long Malawi Livestock for Resilience project which seeks to build the resilience of disaster-prone communities in Central Malawi, more specifically in the...
View ArticleMalawi corruption on the rise – Transparency International
Malawi is among the most corrupt countries in the world, a report released by an anti-graft global watchdog shows. The country has been ranked 110th among 175 countries in terms of the Corruption...
View ArticleMalawi VP Chilima commends smallholder farmers at NASFAM indaba
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has commended smallholder farmers in the country for their role they play in agriculture and economic activities. Chilima made the commendation when he opened the...
View ArticleMRA takes over responsibility of collecting all international transit fees
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has taken over the responsibility of collecting International Transit Fees (ITF) from the Road Fund Administration (RRA), which has been responsible for all transit...
View ArticleMutharika upbeat to heal Malawi economy, launches investments handbook
President Peter Mutharika used his address during the launch of Malawi’s first-ever Bankable Projects Compendium – Malawi Investments Projects Handbook – to express confidence that his government...
View ArticleMutharika says private sector critical to Malawi
President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday said the private sector can play a critical role in resuscitating the country’s economy. Mutharika was speaking at the Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe when he launched...
View ArticleOVOP launches five years strategic plan
One Village One Product (OVOP), a programme under the Japanese Government has launched its five years strategic plan that will direct OVOP movement in the years to come. The 2014 /19 plan will apart...
View ArticleKalondolondo project to lobby World Bank to increase environmental funds for...
Programmes Officer for Kalondolondo Project Jephter Mwanza has said his organization will lobby the World Bank to consider increasing the money allocated towards environmental management in Local...
View ArticleBeware of Facebook business deals: Malawi man tricked
A Malawi farmer in the eastern region district of Machinga by a hair’s breadth could have lost fifty 50kg bags of rice to a bogus business deal he had found on social networking site Facebook. Sani...
View ArticleBoard apologies on Lilongwe water shortage, blames ESCOM
Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) has issued an apology to tap water users in the areas surrounding Malawi’s Capital for water shortage problem hitting the residents for the past three days saying this is...
View ArticleMRA says local manufacturers not utilising Malawi-Zimbabwe trade agreement
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has observed that most local businesses are utilising the Malawi-Zimbabwe Trade Agreement to boost their businesses. Signed in 1995, the Malawi-Zimbabwe bilateral...
View ArticleUmunthu Microfinance: Fighting poverty in Malawi with small loans
The low income earners in and around Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre are heaving a sigh of relief following the effort by the Umunthu Microfinance, an organization which is providing them with...
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