Category Archives: Business

AHCX, ACE partner to promote structured markets

November 14, 2017 no comments

AHL Commodities Exchange (AHCX) and Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ACE) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The intention of the MoU is to allow cooperation in developing markets ...

Man arrested for possession of ivory worth $147,000

November 14, 2017 no comments

The National Police Headquarters Wildlife Crimes Investigation Unit has arrested 47 year old Dennis Zingunde for being found in possession of 70 kilograms of raw Ivory valued at US$147,000. National ...

Pig Farming Explained

November 14, 2017 no comments

How Profitable is Pig Farming? While most people consider most forms of Animal husbandry as very involving, pig farming in particular can be a very profitable and lucrative affair. When you consider ...

Reforestation could tackle power problems

November 13, 2017 no comments

Chairperson of the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) Robert Mkwezalamba has stressed on the need for Malawi to invest in serious reforestation programes to replace lost vegetation. He said t...

MCC lauds govt on corruption control

November 13, 2017 no comments

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has said Malawi continued to pass its scorecard by meeting the requirement of passing the 20 indicators overall, including the hard hurdles of control of co...

Poaching earns three men jail terms

November 13, 2017 no comments

The Ntchisi Magistrate Court last week convicted and sentenced Medson Songazaudzu to five years imprisonment with hard labour for killing an elephant. Gladstone Mthawanji and James Mtsiro both from t...

ESCOM’s Power capacity set to increase to 431MW

November 13, 2017 no comments

Power to be generated through Solar Photovoltaic Power systems The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi is to add 70MW of power to the national power grid through the use of solar power supplied ...

Fired ESCOM Boss moved to Air Cargo: Malawi still in Blackout

November 13, 2017 no comments

Last week, Evelyn Mwapasa was replaced by Dr Alexon Chiwaya as the Chief Executive Officer for ESCOM after the country experienced its worst blackouts since Independence when Nyasaland became Malawi....

There are 55 million local Chickens in Malawi

November 12, 2017 no comments

Farmers encouraged to keep local chicken breeds Malawian farmers have been encouraged to continue keeping local chicken breeds because of their ability to serve multiple income generation purposes. T...

Malawi’s power project deadline remains intact

November 12, 2017 no comments

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) says it remains optimistic in its set target of completeing the compact program in Malawi’s power sector by September next year. MCC is implementating...