The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) says it has introduced COMESA Virtual Trade Facilitation System (CVTFS), which aims at assisting both private and public sector institutions in COMESA member states to monitor and manage transportation of cargo. Over the years MRA and the immigration department have been inspecting cargo passing through the country’s border posts manually, […]
Malawi is planning to align its seed regulations to the region through Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) Seed Harmonization Implementation Plan (COMSHIP). Secretary for Agriculture, Erica Maganga said in Lilongwe on Friday during the official opening of the National Seed Consultative Meeting that COMSHIP is intended to bring about a framework of […]
Comesa Court sitting in Lusaka, Zambia, has thrown out an application by the Malawi Government which asked the court to drop a case where Malawi Mobile Limited (MML) a mobile phone operator licensed in April 2002 but faced political hurdles against rolling out its services in the country is challenging illegal termination of the contract. […]
Malawi Mobile Limited (MML) a mobile phone operator licenced in April 2002 but faced political hurdles against rolling out its services in the country has lodged an appeal at the Comesa Court, challenging the Supreme Court of Malawi’s decision that reversed a 2002 High Court order to award the company a $66 million (about K11 […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika joined African leaders on Wednesday to sign a 26-nation free trade pact to create a common market that would span half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town. The pact – known as The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) – which must still be fine-tuned and ratified, caps five years of […]
The Minister of Trade and Industry Joseph Mwanamvekha has said the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) which 26 African countries are launching this Wednesday in Egypt to create a common market across half the continent would help companies in Malawi find a bigger market to sell their goods and compete effectively on the international market. […]
Cyber Security is a new area in Malawi and there is need for awareness as the nation is experiencing increasing electronic transactions which will enhance economic activity of the country. Chief Secretary to the Government George Mkondiwa was speaking at in Lilongwe on Tuesday at a sensitization workshop on cyber security organized by Malawi Regulatory […]
Malawi stands to benefit from the Southern African Development Community(SADC)’s industrialisation process as strategies other countries in the region are deploying would be incorporated in the national policy, Trade and Industry Minister Joseph Mwanamveka has said. He made the remarks Tuesday morning on the sidelines of the 34th extraordinary SADC Summit at Meikles Hotel in […]
With an aim to enhance the generation and dissemination of research related to regional integration, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Council of Ministers in its 34th meeting at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa has agreed to establish a virtual university that will work in a collaborative initiative with a network […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika said Monday that his government is committed to continue working towards honoring obligations under the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) treaty. The treaty seeks to transform the region into a fully integrated, internationally competitive, regional economic community with high standards of living for its people. Speaking during his […]
Malawi First Lady Gertrude Mutharika has called on COMESA member countries to put a lot of resources in supporting girl child education for the region to achieve meaningful women economic empowerment and achieve sustainable industrial development. Madam Mutharika was speaking on Monday when she addressed the 8thCOMESA First Ladies Roundtable Meeting held as part of the […]
Malawi recorded the highest fall in inflation in the month of May although now at 23.6 percent the rate remained the second highest in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) region with only Sudan being the worst at 37.4 percent, according to a Comesa report. Comesa’s report on Harmonised Consumer Price Index […]
Former Central Bank Governor Mary Nkosi has been appointed a member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) into its four member committee of Elders. The news about Nkosi appointment was made public by the Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs George Nkondiwa through a communiqué on President Joyce Banda’s recent […]
Malawian President Joyce Banda is in the Democatric Republic Congo capital Kinshasa, for the 17th summit of the COMESA and joins other heads of state and governments to discuss issues affecting the continent’s development. The summit opened on Wednesday morning is being held under the theme, “Consolidating Intra-Comesa Trade and Through Micro-Small and Medium Enterprise Development”. The […]
President Joyce Banda has said peace and stability are very crucial in trade and economy in Africa. She said this on Tuesday at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) when she was departing for the seventeenth Summit of the COMESA Authority of Heads of State and Government scheduled to take place on 26 and 27 February in Kinshasa, Democratic republic […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda leaves the country on Tuesday for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where she will proceed to take her eighth trip to Nigeria in two years she has been in office. Presidential Press Secretary Steve Nhlane said in a statement poste on Malawi State House official Facebook page called that Banda will […]
Organizing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into clusters has the potential to spur industrial growth if investors were well mentored and trained, the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) has observed. The Chamber’s President Matthews Chikankheni made the observation on the sidelines of a closing ceremony of an Industrial Cluster training for […]
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday wrapped up his two-day tour of duty in Malawi with a landmark inauguration of a multinational road project in the capital Lilongwe. Since his arrival on Wednesday, President Kibaki undertook a number of tasks including holding a bilateral talk with his Malawian counterpart Joyce Banda. And on Thursday, just […]