Malawi’s Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Atupele Muluzi, has been in UK last week on official business and visited Westminster at the House of Commons and House of Lords to lobby and mobilise support for Malawi, particularly for the energy sector. Speaking in interview with Nyasa Times from London, the minister described his tour as “extremely successful”. Westminster During […]
Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Technology Vincent Ng’ambi has said provision of access and equitable quality education in community day secondary schools (CDSSs) is facing a lot of challenges including lack of proper sanitation. He was speaking at Dwasulu CDSS in Nkhotakota during handover ceremony of borehole and toilet units constructed by United Nations […]
Msungwana Shaina launched Brainchild of British envoy’s spouse DfID heads tweet it as ‘Malawi’s Christmas Number 1 hit’ A song recorded by Malawi popular musician-cum-politician Lucius Banda promoting girls education in the country has been released and officially launched. The song, Msungwana Shaina, was launched on Wednesday night at the official residence of British High […]
Malawi’s biggest donor, Britain will not be able to resume aid support until the government clamped “firmly down on corruption ” and the cashgate scandal which dates back to 2005 is independently and properly resolved, Department for International Development (DfID) spokesperson Baroness Northover in the House of Lords told peers in Westminster on Thursday . Peers […]
The House of Lords in Britain will debate a Motion on aid to Malawi on Thursday, Nyasa Times learnt in London. Peers will debate the motion to be led by Lord Jack McConnell and Baroness Lindsay Patricia NorthoveR. McConnell, Scotland’s former first minister, was named a future British High Commissioner to Malawi but never got the […]
Britain has described Malawi’s Public Financial Management (PMF) System as a “leaking bucket” that requires serious attention before several donors particularly Britain resumes providing its support. Permanent Secretary of Britain’s foreign aid wing-the Department for International Development (DFID) Mark Lowcock who visited Malawi this week said Britain also want culture of impunity to come to […]
Sarah Sanyahumbi, the head of the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DfID), has completed her assignment after a three-year tour of duty in Malawi. Sanyahumbi has worked, albeit briefly, with both the Mutharika brothers and former president Joyce Banda. Journalist Raphael Tenthani engages her {article appeared in Malawi News) to look back at her eventful […]
The outgoing Head of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Malawi, Sarah Sanyahumbi, who has finished her three years tour of duty in the country is demanding President Peter Mutharika to start matching his words with actions, saying the honeymoon is now over. Since assuming power after chaotic May 20 elections. Mutharika has […]
Malawi, which refers herself as the Warm Heart of Africa, is among African countries to benefit from the K2.4 billion Department for International Development (DFID) clean energy project seeking to promote the use of biomass to generate electricity. The project, expected to run for four years, will reduce the shortage of electricity especially in industries […]
Malawi’s biggest donor, Britain has said will not be able to resume aid support until the government clamped “firmly down on corruption”. Malawi has been rocked by the plunder of public resources, known as Capital Hill Cashgate scandal. A forensic audit report by British auditors showed this week that K13 billion ($30 million) was stolen in six […]
The United Kingdom has contributed US$22 million (K8.4 billion) to the United Nations World Food Programme to assist Malawian families who are unable to meet their basic food needs. The contribution will enable WFP to provide food assistance to some 910 000 people for several months of the ‘lean season’ between now and March when the […]
Britain – Malawi’s main bilateral donor – has withheld part of its aid programme, for Malawi over the country’s concerns of economic mismanagement in the wake of cash-gate scandal at Capital Hill. UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) has “delayed the majority of its financial aid payments to Malawi” , the House of Lords in London […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has expressed delight with the announcement UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) that it is giving Malawi £37 million in aid to help tackle HIV and boost the supply of vital medication. The announcement was made on Monday at DFID’s Scottish headquarters in East Kilbride when President Banda met the International […]
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has announced a big new girls’ education programme aimed at enabling thousands of girls to complete primary and secondary school. The programme, ‘Keeping Girls in School’ (KGIS) will tackle several of the factors that force girls to drop out of school which include early marriage and pregnancy, violence against […]
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has donated £6.35 million (MK3.3 billion) to the Government of Malawi (GoM) towards the seeds component of the Farm Input Subsidy Programme. The donation will enable the Government to provide affordable quality maize and legume seeds to 840,000 vulnerable households, out of a total of 1.544million targeted by the […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda on Tuesday held an audience with Britain aid agency, Department for International Development (DFID) top official at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, where among others they discussed on how to get Malawi’s economy back on track. DFID Director General responsible for country programmes, Joy Hutcheon, told the media after the audience that […]
Friend indeed! Britain is the first donor to contribute $4.7 million (2.9 million pounds) to Malawi for food aid as the country needs $48 million to feed than 1.6 million people face food shortage. The UN’s World Food Programme said Tuesday about 11 percent of Malawi’s population who will face hunger due to bad crops and […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika (with encouragement from Robert Mugabe) was beginning to develop a policy in Malawi that was designed to free Malawi from aid dependency. It was a poorly-conceived policy, and very crudely executed, like everything under Bingu’s immediate direction, but it had the potential to free Malawi from its humiliating status as international […]