In the wake of frequent power outages, Kasungu District Hospital has become a beneficiary of solar powered electricity. The hospital got 24 solar panels and an air conditioner from Ministry of Health. The solar energy has come as relief to most patients who told Malawi News Agency (Mana) that they failed to get some services […]
Malawi leading newspaper has strongly called up government to speed the implementation of its K2.7 billion solar project which seeks to address power outages facing hospitals in rural areas. The ministry of health said recently that it is working on the $3.78million project to install at 85 health facilitates across the country. Project implementers say some […]
President Peter Mutharika has been accused of giving “wrong” information to parliament when he told the August House that the worsening electricity blackouts, which have heavily dented his rule, is due to failure by the previous administrations to invest in the energy sector, adding that his administration has lined up medium and long-term interventions to deal […]
Civil society organisations (CSO) on Wednesday led street protests on critical issues if national importance including the prevailing extended power outages and petitioned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to end the blackouts that is affecting the economic fabric of the nation. The protestors who carried placard which read ‘Escom Mwalephera’ [Escom you have failed […]
Malawi government spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi, has has described as unnecessary the demonstrations organized by the Civil Society Organization one way of showing their anger against Electricity Supply Coorperation of Malawi’s (Escom’s) poor service delivery leading to electricity blackouts. Speaking at Central Office Information (COI) in Lilongwe on Tuesday, Dausi who is also Minister of Information […]
The National Organization of Nurses and Midwives says the current power cut and shortages are affecting the country’s health service delivery system. Executive Director, Dorothy Ngoma, said the country’s health is in crisis reportedly after deaths are reported at t he country’s referral hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) because […]
Divisions have emerged within the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) ranks and file over the Wednesday November 8, demonstrations. The self-acclaimed civil and muman rights campaigner, Mayaya, on 3 November, 2017, served Lilongwe City Council with a five day notice of peaceful demonstration against the unrelenting ESCOM intermittent power cuts. Mayaya in the notice of intention […]
Centre for Development of People (Cedep) and Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) have attributed to the country’s perennial energy shortages which were hampering economic growth to poor leadership and faulted the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Of late the rolling power cuts are fraying tempers amongst citizens as the beleaguered power utility, Escom, is […]
South Africa-based Prophet Shepherd Bushiri dominated the Malawi media headlines on Monday for a function he held on Saturday when he led Malawians in special prayers organised by a grouping of Malawians living in South Africa under the banner Malawi Forum held at the Prophet’s Sparkling Waters Hotel and Spa in Rustenburg in South Africa. […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit back at leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera who branded him as a “pathological liar”, saying he tells the truth projected Chakwera as a big liar. Chakwera accused President Mutharika of being “clueless, directionless and insensitive” to the people’s misery and suffering inflicted by power blackouts and that he lied to […]
Geneva-based social-economic commentator Stanley Kenani has backed leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera who has dared President Peter Mutharika to demonstrate seriousness to resolve the energy crisis facing the country by fast-tracking interim solutions to extended power outages but a group of individuals sympathetic with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) calling themselves Concerned Citizens has registered […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government of influencing the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to award a contract of purchasing generators to a company with links to the party’s members, saying leaders are busy enriching themselves through corrupt means and are failing to fight corruption because “they […]
Malawi has been ranked 110th on the ease of doing business index, up from 133, World Bank Doing Business 2018 Report has revealed as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigatuon and Water Development, Jospeh Mwanamvekha has assured government will sustsain the gains and push for more reforms. The report which was launched in Lilongwe on Wednesday, indicates […]
As Malawi grapples with a power crisis partly caused by years of insufficient investment in infrastructure that is heaping more pain on the country already ailing economy, an economist has warned of far more negative implications for the nation if there will be no solution in short term. Every day the nation is experiencing blackout […]
State President Professor Peter wa Mutharika has assured Malawians that electricity will normalize considering that government was doing everything possible to invest in the power sector. “For the past 51 years we did not invest much in the energy sector in this country which is why we’ve these frequent blackouts but things will normalize soon,” […]
As Malawians are growing increasingly concerned with the electricity woes the country is currently facing, President Professor Peter Mutharika has appealed for patience, saying the problem will hopefully be minimized by next year as there are solutions in place to help the country both in the short term, medium term and long term. Mutharika gave the assurance on Wednesday […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Salima north-west Dr Jessie Kabwila has implored on government to make a decisive intervention on the growing problem of power outages in the country. Speaking when she addressed reporters upon her from Scotland where she represented Malawi in different forums in her capacity as chairperson for the parliamentary […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika quietly sneaked into Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) headquarters’ offices which are housed on the 5th Floor of Umoyo House in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre for a surprise visit Wednesday morning. The Malawi leader invaded the premises unannounced with business as usual and he sneaked in without the customary presidential […]