Malawi phone service operators MTL, TNM in US$21 million debt
While phone consumers are still whining about poor services from the providers, they will have another shocker with revelations that two of the country’s phone service operators, Malawi...
View ArticleChikangawa Forest on fire, Malawi’s biggest forest reduces to backyard tree...
Malawi’s forest firefighters are battling raging fires at Chikangawa which has reduced the southern Africa’s biggest man made forest into a small tree plantation. Spokesperson for the department of...
View ArticleMalawi NGOs happy with vote to end domestic ivory trade
With African elephant numbers down by an estimated 30% since 2007 due to poaching, nations urged decisive action this weekend with support for a motion to close all domestic ivory markets around the...
View ArticleTNM brings ‘Za Bhoo’ promotion: K5mil, fridges, screens up for grabs
To reward customers for supporting its growth and operations, Malawi’s integrated mobile network and ICT service provider TNM is pleased to announce the launch of “Za Bhoo” promotion which aims to...
View ArticleFunwe seed Ltd assures farmers for easy access of seeds
As the time is getting closer to growing season, Funwe Seed Limited has assured farmers in the country that they will access their seeds without sweating and at affordable prices. Speaking at the...
View ArticleCement Products Limited impresses Mining Minister with multi – million...
Minister of Natural Resources and Mining, Bright Msaka has expressed satisfaction with the investment that Cement Products Limited (CPL) is making at its Njereza Plant in Mangochi saying the venture...
View ArticleIMF wary over Malawi high inflation, bank interest rates
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission as met Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe and Reserve Bank governor Charles Chuka where they have expressed concern over...
View ArticleMalawi seeks K36bn for Nsanje rail, Thyolo road project: Apply grant from Japan
Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe has disclosed that government has applied for $50 million (about K36 billion) grant from the Japanese government to be used for...
View ArticleRich, poor widening gap worries Malawi Finance Minister
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe says the ever increasing widening gap between the rich and the poor is a major concern to government. Gondwe said this on Friday...
View ArticleMRA impounds Axa buses on tax payment failure
Tax collector, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has impounded two Axa buses which are now at MRA offices in Mzuzu and Lilongwe. MRA corporate affairs manager Steve Kapoloma confirmed the two buses...
View ArticleWidows of Hope Africa urges Malawi widows to be independent, do business
Lilongwe based local charity organisation, Widow’s Hope Africa has urged the country’s widows to be independent. Widows of Hope Africa director, Elizabeth Banda was speaking in Lilongwe during the...
View ArticleTNM wins South Eastern Africa best mobile operator award
Capital Finance International (CFI.co) has awarded Malawi’s integrated mobile network and ICT service provider TNM as the best mobile operator in the South Eastern Africa region. Making the...
View ArticleBotswana’s Graveyard Autosport confirms coming to Malawi
It all started in 2012 with a group of friends doing motor spin and drift shows in the outskirts of Gaborone city in Botswana. One of their favourite roads happened to be close to a... The post...
View ArticleMalawi govt in exit strategy for Fisp, engages private sector
Government has said the private sector will this year take centre stage in the administration of farm input program (Fisp) as way of improving the service. Agriculture minister George Chaponda said the...
View ArticleState House engages Mulanje citizens over conservation trust
Presidential aide Mavuto Bamusi says he will meet members of Citizens for the Protection of Mulanje (CPM) who want the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust out of the mountain for allegedly destroying...
View ArticleNdau visit sections within his ministry of information
Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Malison Ndau, on Tuesday visited some of the Ministry’s sections in Lilongwe. The visit by the Minister was aimed at appreciating the core...
View ArticleTNM reaches out to a crocodile attack victim in Nsanje
Malawi’s integrated mobile network and ICT service provider TNM has donated K385,000 towards the purchase of artificial limbs (leg and arm) to a crocodile attack victim in Nsanje, Lovemore Mofolo. The...
View ArticleMalawi President signs law to unbundle Escom: New power generation company...
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Bright Msaka has disclosed that President Peter Mutharika has signed into law a bill that seeks to unbundle Escom and a new power generating cmpany has...
View ArticleClean Water Cycle 999 charity initiative hands over borehole to Mulanje...
The Malawian cyclists, who plan to cycle 1,755kms from Nsanje to Chitipa and back to Blantyre for charity to raise funds to drill one borehole each in nine villages in nine districts, handed over a......
View ArticleMalawi to use fuel for top up power — Msaka
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Bright Msaka has said utility power provider Escom will now use diesel for top up power. He acknowledged the demand for electricity is just too huge....
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