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’s donors under Common Approach to Budgetary Support (CABS) who recently suspended $150 million in budgetary aid over the looting of public funds from government coffers, say it will take time for them to resume aid to the donor dependent southern African country whose 40 percent of its national budget comes from donors. Speaking during […]
As Chair of the Common Approach to Budget Support (CABS) group, I have the honour to be representing my colleagues who make up the Common Approach to Budgetary Support (CABS) group at this important meeting. We are holding this CABS review at a very difficult time for Malawi, and this is really an extra-ordinary CABS meeting […]
Malawi government will have to tighten its financial belt significantly after donors announced on Thursday have put on hold budget support in response to massive financial looting at Capital Hill dubbed as cash-gate. The donors, including the IMF and World Bank under the Common Approach to Budget Support (CABS) said on Thursday that they are withholding direct […]
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 […]