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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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Violence is DPP’s inheritance from founder
The Democratic Progress Party (DPP) is a party that thrives on violence. It is a legacy that its founder, the…
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Is RBM trying to kill Saccos?
Savings and Credit Cooperatives (Saccos) have—since their introduction in Malawi by Catholic Fathers in 1960s—been an important source of financial…
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Feature of the Week
‘Malawians have never been freer than today’
At the recent Public Affairs Committee (PAC) conference, Norwegian ambassador Asbjørn Eidhammer made a wide ranging analysis of successive administrations…
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An avalanche of jettisoned jet lies
The Joyce Banda administration has lied so much on the usage and sale of the presidential jet that its lies…
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Debts, contract breaches rock Fisp
The Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) is crippled as billions in debts, contracts breaches and unaccounted for coupons suck its…
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Is Kayelekera closure harbinger of worst things to come?
Is the closure of Kayelekera Uranium Mine (KUM) in Karonga—while attributable to global industry price trends—a microcosm of what has…
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Feature of the Week
Can Ministry of Education’s bold move help return LDF to original design?
They are there—the skeletons of a failed project parachuted into a community from Capital Hill without the involvement of either…
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PP members should focus on common purpose
The ruling People’s Party (PP) is reeling under the weight of what some say is a botched primary process that…
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Chaos awaits councils after May 20
All indicators are that government—particularly the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (ML&RD)—is ill-prepared for the return of ward…
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Bohnox jettisons administration’s jet narrative
About three years ago, I sold a car I had bought four years earlier. Then two weeks ago, having arrived…
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JET SCANDAL: JB chartered the plane three times
A cache of official documents have put the final seal of truth on Nation on Sunday investigative stories on the…
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MCCCI goofs on LDF
Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (MCCCI) basis for linking Local Development Fund’s (LDF) additional expenditure to cashgate…
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Cry our believed parks, game reserves
He does not ask for much from his bosses from the Ministry of Tourism and Culture at Capital Hill. All…
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Editors Pick
Drugs situation better but problems remain
Availability of essential drugs has improved in some district hospitals in the country, but problems remain as the new procurement…
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Muluzi is the fine one to talk!
The other day—nearly two weeks ago to be exact—former president Bakili Muluzi took time from his not-so busy schedule to…
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EU, Norway, UK stake out aid positions on the ‘Chaff’
There is no doubt that the Malawi Government’s fiscal position is precarious largely because a good chunk of the budget…
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The shame that is our forecasting and modeling expertise
What exactly is Secretary to the Treasury Newby Kumwembe saying? Was he making sense even to himself when he told…
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