Sunseed Oil must pay for polluting Malawi environment, MP Suleman

Barely days after a heated private members motion was moved in parliament which tackled preferential political treatment to Malawians of Asian origin doing business in the country, a legislator wants to push Sunseed Oil Company Limited in Lilongwe to pay for endangering communities around it through careless disposal of factory waste. The Environmental Affairs Department […]

Sunseed Oil must pay for polluting Malawi environment: No hiding in political connections! 

In 2014, government, through the Department of Environmental Affairs, closed Sunseed Oil Company Limited in Lilongwe for endangering communities around it through careless disposal of factory waste. I don’t know, over the years, if Sunseed cleaned up after the closure but what I know is that the company was opened and resumed its production. Four […]

Malawi govt closes Sunseed Oil Company over non compliance to environmental standards

The Environmental Affairs Department has sealed Sunseed Oil Company in Lilongwe for allegedly discharging industrial waste into surrounding village’s gardens and onward to Nafutsa stream thereby endangering communities around it. The discharge is a disaster which was supposed to be contained and confined within the company premises, according to waste management laws and rules. The […]