IMF gives Malawi flicker of hope to resume lending
The International Monetray Fund (IMF) says it will consider to resume extended credit facility (ECF) to Malawi in the 6th scheme after the end of mission to Malawi. Addressing a news conference in...
View ArticleExit Mudzi Trust, enters DAHSP: Mutharika launches cement, malata subsidy...
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Thursday launched the Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata Subsidy Programme) at Msampha 1 Village, T/A Chadza in Lilongwe. Critics says the programme...
View ArticleZokoma TV: Malawi’s first online TV starts January 2015
As Malawi’s entertainment industry continues to grow every day, the country will early 2015 witness the launch of the premier online entertainment television network, Zokoma TV. The TV channel is...
View ArticleFeared dead, Muluzi’s graft trial: Nyakuchenya Ganda column
Broadcasting the trial of an ex-president: BBC Online, on March 8th, 2011 reported that: “The trial has begun in Malawi of former President Bakili Muluzi on charges of corruption. The High Court...
View ArticleDPP Kachale deals deadly blow to Lutepo’s cashgate confessions
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mary Kachale, has explained that at law, a criminal offence confession by a person is only evidence against him and no other person can be convicted on the...
View ArticleMCP vindicated on Mutharika’s legitimacy – Kabwila
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokeswoman Dr Jessie Kabwila says the party feel vindicated with the report by the taxpayer-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) on controversial May 20 Tripartite...
View ArticleMuluzi says Malawi future lies in mining, natural resources
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Atupele Muluzi on Friday said his ministry is made up of special entities for economic growth. Speaking in Lilongwe during a ministerial dialogue with...
View ArticleAPM says unlike ‘orange mbyofo mbfoyo’ no blue DAHSP
President Peter Mutharika has warned ruling DPP followers not to politicize the newly launched Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata) Subsidy Program by painting the houses blue – the party...
View ArticleChina, Malawi ink deal on mobile solar power for hospitals in rural areas
The Governments of Malawi and the Peoples Republic of China on Friday signed an agreement for the provision of mobile solar power systems worth about K5 billion to be used in the health sector in the...
View ArticleYOMODE in HIV/Aids awareness training drive
Youth Movement for Development (YOMODE), a Joyce Banda Foundation International (JBFI) youth development initiative, on Friday organized a day-long HIV/AIDS Training of Trainers Workshop for its...
View ArticleMalawi Queens coach takes ‘positives’ from England series
Malawi Queens coach Mary Waya has said her side endure a torrid examination of their development during their two –match series against England which they failed to win but she is happy to take the...
View ArticleLL city council demolishes Area 22B market
Lilongwe City Council on Friday demolished shops of vendors at Area 22B market in the city of Lilongwe as the city continues with its campaign of removing unplanned structures in the city but market...
View ArticleMutharika’s attack on critics ‘sign of guilty’– CSOs
Civil Society Organisations in Malawi have observed that President Peter Mutharika’s recent remarks against his critics during the Christmass Children Party may be deemed as ‘self-implicating’ and a...
View ArticleSave Beam, ma’am, save NAC: Muckraking Extra
I know mea culpas are hard to make but it will not help the First Family’s image to prolong the debate surrounding the K5 million First Lady Gertrude Mutharika’s Beautify Malawi collected from the...
View ArticleNo ‘buddy-buddy’ reforms in Malawi: Tenthani’s Muckraking
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation?” -Thomas Carlyle It now looks like some light years back but sometime in...
View ArticleMalawi Immigration collects K3.5bn revenue in 2014
Malawi Immigration Department says in the year 2014 the department has collected revenues of close to K3.5 billion, a figure it says it’s not far from the revenues the department collected in 2013....
View ArticleKamuzu Central Hospital now ‘death trap’ –Health watchdog
Malawi Health Equity Network executive director Martha Kwataine has said the health care system at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has turned the facility into “a death trap.” Doctors at...
View ArticleNankhumwa denies lying about JB, Lutepo CCTV footage
Malawi’s Information Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has maintained that government handed over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) footage of meetings between former president Joyce Banda and Cashgate...
View ArticleDiscovering Sipe the musician: Malawi hotshot has gospel video on YouTube
You might have heard that Sipe, one of Malawi’s representatives at the just ended Big Brother Africa (BBA) Hotshots, was also a recording artist, but never heard any of her studio work, except for her...
View ArticleMutharika on reset to improve economy: Malawi passing through ‘turbulent times’
Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika has said he will not be distracted as he focus on improving people’s lives by hitting the reset button of governance to improve the economic situation. The...
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