Dubai-based Emirates Airline plans to schedule flight operations to Malawi through Kamuzu International Airport in the capital Lilongwe, Nyasa Times understands. Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, will extend its reach into Africa with the launch of a new linked service to Lilongwe.. Now flying to 22 points within Africa, Emirates will connect […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which criticised the initiative of previous Joyce Banda administration to send Malawian young men and women to work abroad has said they will continue with the programme. When they were in opposition, DPP dubbed the exercise “human trafficking” while others called it a “joke”, arguing that the programme does not make […]
Rak Gas international a United Arab Emirates based company on Monday donated medicine and medical supplies to Malawi. The handover ceremony of the donation which took place at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe was attended by President Joyce Banda as well as Ministry of Health officials. The donation comes following the visit of President Banda to […]
Government of the United Arab Emirates through the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has donated 13 500 metric tonnes of maize that will benefit about 7 500 hunger stricken families. The donation follows a visit by President Joyce Banda in October last year. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, President Banda said she was […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday met officials of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development on the fringes of the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Development Agenda in United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi Fund for Development provides concessional loans to developing countries including Malawi. In Malawi, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development will finance […]
Malawi President oyce Banda was on Monday, November 18, 2013 attended the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Development Agenda in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This is the world’s largest brainstorming event, which brings together the most relevant thought leaders of the WEF’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. The Councils, which comprise of […]
The government of Malawi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Arab Emirates (UAE) on labour force. The MoU was signed by Malawian Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ralph Kasambara and Saqr Ghobash, UAE Minister of Labour at the Ministry of Labour in Abu Dhabi in the presence of senior officials on both sides. The […]
President Joyce Banda, on her way to Japan this morning, had a stopover in Dubai, UAE, where she met with Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Labour for the United Arab Emirates and discussed several issues relating to the emerging relationship between two countries. President Banda briefed the UAE Government on the developments in Malawi and her […]
JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE END OF THE HIGH LEVEL MEETING WITH DELEGATION FROM THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 10TH TO 11TH MAY, 2013 Communiqué Desirous to strengthen and consolidate the bilateral relations between the Governments of the Republic of Malawi and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a Delegation from the United Arab Emirates, led by His […]
United Arab Emirates investors have expressed interest to invest in various sectors in the country following high level talks government held in Lilongwe with a highly powered delegation from the Arabic country. Leader of the UAE delegation, Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister responsible for economic affairs, Khalid Ghanim Al Ghaith said during the meeting that UAE […]
President Joyce Banda on Thursday held talks with a delegation of mining investors from the United Arab Emirates on possible assistance in the mining industry to Malawi. The audience took place at the Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. Briefing reporters after the audience, the Minister of Energy and Mining John Bande said the delegates have come […]