The Renewable Energy Industries Association of Malawi (REIAMA) has called on stakeholders across all sectors of the economy to engage in candid discussions on how to improve energy supply, including electricity, which remains a major challenge in the country. REIAMA made the call during a press briefing in Lilongwe on Wednesday, ahead of this year’s […]
Malawi’s Flames return to action under the Bingu National Stadium floodlights this Friday, 25 September, in a high-stakes Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Sudan — a fixture that could prove decisive not just for the team’s continental ambitions, but for the very future of head coach Kalisto Pasuwa. Kick-off is set for 18:00 […]
Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) dominated Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KuHES) at the Mo626 Varsity Games Southern Region Championship, sweeping both the men’s and women’s football matches, while KuHES claimed victory on the netball court. MUST Ladies registered a 2-0 win over KuHES in the women’s football encounter, before the MUST men’s […]
Anti-corruption campaigners have erupted in fury after prosecutors controversially discontinued a bribery case against convicted Chinese wildlife trafficker Lin Yunhua — branding the shock decision “disturbing” and warning it could deal a devastating blow to Malawi’s fight against corruption. The National Anti-Corruption Alliance (NACA) hit out at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions […]
Frank Mbeta spent years in court representing plastic manufacturers opposed to Malawi’s thin-plastics ban. As attorney general, he is now responsible for defending the very regulations he once sought to overturn. That history alone proves nothing improper – but it raises questions about institutional safeguards that Malawi has yet to answer. The long-running battle over […]
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc has honoured its promise to send eight 2024 Platinum Employee Recognition Awardees and their spouses on an all-expenses-paid trip, taking them to Cape Town, South Africa, after their original travel plans hit a snag. The employees departed Malawi on Saturday for the special tour, following the disruption of their […]
Malawian workers are burning through their entire monthly salaries in as little as three to seven days, according to a damning new survey that lays bare the crushing financial pressure gripping households across the country. The eye-opening study, carried out this month by Human Resources expert Bright Limani, found alarmingly high rates of salary depletion […]
Pressure is mounting on Malawian authorities to end a bitter standoff threatening the country’s next Global Fund windfall, as a growing coalition of faith leaders and rights groups warn that thousands of lives could be at stake if the impasse drags on any longer. The Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected […]
When Malawi’s Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Dr. Ben Malunga Phiri, stood before an audience at Peking University to reflect on the Communist Party of China’s governance experience, he was doing more than delivering a courtesy speech during a ministerial study tour. He was articulating a sentiment increasingly common among policymakers across the […]
Malawi’s mining minister has reaffirmed that companies operating in the country will not be permitted to export unprocessed minerals, as the government seeks to capture more value from its nascent extractives sector rather than shipping raw material abroad for processing elsewhere. Speaking during a visit to the Kangankunde Rare Earth Project in Balaka on Wednesday, […]
A football club’s main sponsor accused of corruption and match-fixing has finally been cleared, after magistrates threw out the long-running case that prosecutors astonishingly failed to bring to court for more than two-and-a-half years. Mary Woodworth, of Friends of Mulanje and chief backer of FOMO Football Club, walked free from the Limbe Dalton Senior Resident […]
A former Cabinet minister has thrown Parliament’s investigation into the fatal Chikangawa plane crash into fresh turmoil, demanding that two of his fellow MPs be summoned to testify before the ad-hoc committee probing the tragedy that claimed the life of former vice-president Saulos Chilima and eight others. Moses Kunkuyu, the former Information Minister and MP […]
Malawi’s disaster management chiefs have been plunged into fresh controversy after giving Parliament wildly conflicting accounts of what really happened to their own aircraft during the desperate search for the plane carrying former vice-president Saulos Chilima and eight others. The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) now faces mounting pressure to explain itself after top […]
Malawi’s Junior Flames wrapped up their COSAFA Under-20 Championship Group C campaign with a dramatic 2-1 comeback win over Comoros, snatching victory deep into stoppage time. Comoros took the lead through Zoyad Moussa in the 23rd minute, and Malawi went into the break trailing 1-0 after failing to find a way through before halftime. The […]
Malawi’s national netball side, the Queens, are gearing up for a mammoth semi-final clash against South Africa in the Netball World Cup 2027 Africa Qualifiers — but only after a dramatic wobble threatened to knock their momentum off course. The Queens had looked unstoppable, storming through Pool 2 with commanding victories over Kenya, Nigeria and […]
A convicted Chinese wildlife trafficker has sensationally walked free from a Malawian prison, just days after the High Court flatly rejected his bail application and ordered he remain behind bars — sparking fury and demands for answers. Dedza Medium Security Prison confirmed that Lin Yunhua had been released after the State abruptly discontinued corruption proceedings […]
Malawi is sitting on vast mineral wealth, yet its largest population — the youth — remains on the margins of the mining sector, trapped between lack of capital, lack of information and exploitation. That was the picture that emerged from a stakeholders’ meeting organised by ActionAid Malawi (AAM) to unveil a new project, Uplifting the […]
Malawians and visitors alike are facing a dramatic new crackdown on cash, after the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) slapped sweeping restrictions on the physical possession and movement of foreign currency — with anyone caught holding more than $1,000 without central bank permission now at risk. Under the astonishing new rules, anyone physically carrying more […]