China envisages Salima cotton industrialisation to boost Malawi economy: Chilima impressed

November 5, 2020, 6:07 am

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The China-Africa Textile Factory in Salima could be the beginning of Malawi’s journey to industrialisation, Chinese Ambassador to Malawi Liu Hongyang has said, further promising that the Asian global power will continue courting investors to come to Malawi. Ambassador Hongyang was speaking in Salima on Thursday where he accompanied Vice President Saulos Chilima in visiting […]

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ACB rejects Mutharika’s request to unfreeze bank accounts as contractor Bonongwe exposes building projects for ‘cement’ 

November 5, 2020, 6:17 am

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Former president Peter Mutharika apparent defence on cement importation saga will come to question after Lilongwe-based businessman Samudeni Bonongwe has dragged him to the High Court’s commercial division for failure to honour contractual obligations on payments to Mutharika’s several housing projects in which he was supplying cement and other materials. According to the  Bonongwe,  of […]

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Chakwera wants State to prosecute MEC officials over  Malawi ‘Tippex elections’

November 5, 2020, 6:29 am

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President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed open disappointment with the director of Public Prosecutions office for its failure to prosecute Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) presiding officers over the messy 2019 presidential election which was nullified. Speaking at Kamuzu palace in Lilongwe, Chakwera said the High Court and Supreme Court determined that hundreds of presiding officers broke […]

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Malawi Queens to play in three-match series against South Africa

November 5, 2020, 1:27 pm

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South Africa’s SPAR Proteas have announced they will be playing a three-Test series against the Malawi Queens from 26 to 30 November in Rustenburg. The matches will see two more international sides returning to court after England and New Zealand faced-off in Hamilton. This will be the first time the two countries have met since the […]

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Malawi train under floodlights before Burkina-Faso crash: Foreign-based players start trickling in

November 5, 2020, 1:56 pm

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Malawi national football team (Flames) is currently training under flood lights ahead of the ahead of back to back AFCON qualifying matches against Burkina Faso next week. On Monday, the Flames leave the country for Ouagadougou in readiness for Thursday’s crash against Burkina-Faso, possibly under floodlights. The training sessions are meant to enable the players adapt […]

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President Chakwera’s anguish, warns lazy bones in public service: ‘This is new Malawi’

November 5, 2020, 2:14 pm

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President Lazarus Chakwera has put all controlling officers for all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies on notice that if they do not perform productively by the end of the year, they will be fired. Chakwera made the warning on  a special address to the nation on Thursday by laying bare his personal anguish following the mass […]

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Church organizes Powerhouse Business Summit on November 7 in Blantyre

November 5, 2020, 3:08 pm

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Powerhouse Community Outreach International Ministry is set to host entrepreneurs to a Powerhouse Business Summit 2020 at Blantyre Teachers’ Training College in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre. The church’s founder and overseer, Pastor Dr. Clement Nkhoma, told Nyasa Times in a telephone interview on Friday that the purpose of the seminar is to equip the body of Christ with the right […]

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Drunk guardian left behind by bus renders Malawi kids stranded in Zimbabwe

November 6, 2020, 2:58 am

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A migrant Malawian father in South Africa, entrusted care of his two children on his brother to be repatriated back home but whilst in transit he was left behind by the bus they were travelling in because he had gone missing in Zimbabwe when he had gone drinking. This has been disclosed by International Association […]

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Mwenifumbo dares MEC on threats to halt by-election in Karonga Central

November 6, 2020, 3:00 am

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UTM Party Parliamentary candidate for the forth coming by-election in Karonga Central Constituency Frank Mwenifumbohas taken a swipe at electoral stakeholders for threatening to put to  halt a parliamentary  by-election scheduled for Tuesday, November 10 due to escalating cases of political violence based on false intel-information. Mwenifumbo said this on Thursday  at his round off […]

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Turmoil at TNM as CEO steps down: M’bwana acting boss

November 6, 2020, 4:06 am

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Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE)–listed TNM plc has been thrown into reputational crisis as  its chief executive officer (CEO) Michiel Buitelaar has   resigned at the mobile phone service provider under controversial circumstances as there are reports of financial malfeasances. Sources at the company said Buitelaar was forced to resign following complaints  of ‘mis-procurement’ by the company , in […]

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Nankhumwa calls for commission of inquiry on  Malawi exam fraud

November 6, 2020, 4:38 am

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Leader of opposition in Parliament  Kondwani Nankhumwa has called on President Lazarus Chakwera to immediately set up a Commission of Inquiry in order to find out the cause of the leakage of examination papers f which forced the cancellation of the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams  and led to clashes Wednesday between […]

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Former NFRA deputy general manager Viola back in court

November 6, 2020, 5:31 am

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Former National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) deputy general manager Gerald Viola is back in court to answer his corruption case. The state is parading witnesses in the Lilongwe principal resident magistrate court. He is charged with three counts of misuse of public office, interfering with procurement and forgery. Viola allegedly awarded Misses Trading Company a […]

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Court adjourns case of Chikwawa man accused of defiling 11-year-girl

November 6, 2020, 5:38 am

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A court in Chikhwawa has adjourned a case in which a 38-year-old man is accused of defiling an 11-year-old girl in the district. The Chikhwawa First Grade magistrate’s court on Thursday adjourned the case of Leonard Kanyama to November 18, 2020 after the state said the case would be handled by the director of public […]

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Chakwera has 2 choices: Format DPP system or leave and suffer consequences

November 6, 2020, 5:44 am

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In their time, errand boys of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were ruthlessly frank in reminding all of us, almost every day, with that apparently disdaining adage ‘DPP is a system’. That adage was well packaged and summed it all for DPP: It meant they are running a scheme of defrauding Malawians through planting their boys […]

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Public sector accountants urged to broaden their skills and knowledge in international standards

November 6, 2020, 5:51 am

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Ministry of Finance has intensified training of trainers (ToT) in International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) as the government moves towards implementating the system at local and the national levels. In 2011, the Government of Malawi adopted the cash basis IPSAS of reporting in 2011 to enhance and improve service delivery in the public accounting […]

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Malawi govt unfairly terminated Fisd gravity water schemes rehabilitation contract:  Cost tax payers millions

November 6, 2020, 5:58 am

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Malawi government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, unfairly terminated a contract for FISD Company Limited to rehabilitate and expand three gravity fed water schemes in Ntcheu District. The contract number is 021/SRWIHL/W/2017/015a-LOT 1 and was awarded to FISD under a project titled Sustainable Rural Water Infrastructure for Improved Health and Rural Livelihoods” which was being […]

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Govt send Mdyetseni on secondment to Neef Ltd as acting CEO

November 6, 2020, 6:30 am

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Government has redeployed  Deputy Director Responsible for Planning in the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Humphrey Mdyetseni to the  National Economic Empowerment Fund (Neef) limited as acting chief executive officer (CEO) for “a period of three months or more.” Neef is the mega loan program aimed at developing and reviving small scale businesses for the youth […]

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Opposition leader Nankhumwa leads Thyolo in clean-up campaign, delegated by President Chakwera

November 13, 2020, 5:49 am

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Opposition and ruling party supporters on Friday put aside their political differences in Thyolo as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and  Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (South) Kondwani Nankhumwa presided over the official launch of the National Clean-up Day Initiative at Thyolo Boma. Opposition DPP and Tonse Alliance supporters brushed shoulders, swept side by side and […]

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MEC dismisses Mwenifumbo ‘lack of merit’ complaints, declares MCP winner of LL, Karonga by-elections:  UDF ward victory confirmed

November 13, 2020, 6:08 am

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Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has on Friday dismissed all complaints from Karonga central parliamentary by-election candidate, UTM Party’s Frank Mwenifumbo over the conduct of the by-election on Tuesday and has since declared Mwenifumbo’s political rival in the race, Leonard Mwalwanda of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), winner. MEC chairperson, Dr Chifundo Kachale said Mwenifumbo’s complaints  “lacked […]

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Malawi rural development scheme aims to raise K10bn capital: Rudevit shares at K1

November 13, 2020, 6:41 am

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Malawi’s Rural Development Investment (Rudevit) Holdings Plc has received a license from the financial regulator Reserve Bank of Malawi authorizing it to raiseK10 billion (approx. U$13 million) capital for investment in agriculturaly-linked rural enterprises. CEO of the indigenous investment group Enwell Kadango said the Registarar  has granted the approval under the under the Financial Services […]

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