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Feature of the Week
Is integrated development the answer?
Experiences of using integrated development as a solution to fighting rural poverty appear to show interesting results. Could this be…
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Chilima modelling for new Capital Hill culture
A story is told that in the first few days of reporting for duties at Capital Hill, Vice-President Saulos Chilima…
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Peter caught with pants down and doesn’t like it
Malawi President Peter Mutharika thought he was being clever. Malawians, he reckoned, were desperate for a 20-member Cabinet and so,…
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Peter repeats brother’s gamble, but is context the same?
There was good news recently from the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) as the monetary policy rate dropped by 2.5…
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Columns
Praise for APM’s frugal travel; BT welcomes own Bloomberg
It is almost two months now since President Peter Mutharika was sworn in as Head of State. Within a similar…
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Of sleepy economy and snoring leadership
Most of the sounds from the industrial areas of Makata in Blantyre, Kanengo in Lilongwe and Luwinga in Mzuzu are…
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Mutharika’s power consolidation moves
President Peter Mutharika has now reached a critical stage of building and consolidating his power base. With his marriage to…
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Must we subsidise cement and iron sheets?
By now those who are politically connected to the ‘new’ Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) must be busy dashing in and…
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PP all but gives up contesting in future elections
It appears that the axed ruling People’s Party (PP) has given up on ever competing in future elections. This is…
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Prepare for sharp economic down turn
On average, they said Malawi’s economic growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) will expand by 5.4 percent. The…
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Front Page
Can Peter’s DPP revamp Malawi?
There was little to hope for the survival of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which, led by late Bingu wa…
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Who said this will be easy?
I am surprised that people are surprised that the now May 20-22 Tripartite Elections had more voting glitches than any…
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What an election, what a campaign!
That this is the most closely contested election Malawi has ever had could be the understatement of the year. For…
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I hope Kachali knows what he is doing
Khumbo Kachali is a gifted politician. I mean, you do not rise to become State Vice-President and vice -president of…
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Entertainment News
MATHUMELA FINALLY TAKES OFF
A word is a seed and if planted in a young mind, time waters it to germinate into greater things.…
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Debate exposing ‘big name’ parties, candidates
If there is one thing that the historic nationally televised presidential debate has achieved, it is that it has exposed…
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Front Page
The debate that never was
There were no rebuttals; no heated exchanges and no stark policy differences to give apathetic or ambivalent voters a choice…
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For the Big Four, debate is about defending record
The first of the two presidential debates starts next week to be followed by a second seven days later. The…
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What is wrong with planning within our means?
Ever since Finance Minister Maxwell Mkwezalamba hinted that he intends to frame the next budget without foreign budget support, there…
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A common approach that is not so common
Under the layer of what cooperating partners tried to portray as a unified message this week are sharp differences in…
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