Business Unpacked
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Health crisis as facilities deplete drug budgets
Crisis looms in the health sector as four months to the end of the 2022/23 fiscal year, some district health…
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Festive season coming up, spend within means
Time really flies. It feels like yesterday when we celebrated the dawn of the New Year 2022 on January 1…
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Can we get serious on Kapichira rehab, energy?
From the word go, I had reservations with the handling of the rehabilitation works at Kapichira Hydropower Station in Chikwawa…
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Oil marketing companies should get organised
For the past three months, and counting, Malawian motorists have been subjected to erratic availability of fuel, notably diesel and…
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Where was the regulator in the Alliance Capital fiasco?
What started as a promising deal for individuals and corporates has kind of ended in tears as they are not…
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Investment in energy critical to MW2063 success
To many Malawian electricity consumers, having uninterrupted supply in a 24-hour cycle is a cause for celebration and at the…
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Elusive IMF deal, the folly of putting all eggs in one basket
In yet another statement marking the end of a “visit” by its mission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday…
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‘Rethinking Tourism’ should mean more action, less talk
Tourism has always had a special place in Malawi’s development. It has always made the list of key drivers contributing…
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‘Rethinking Tourism’ should mean more action, less talk
Tourism has always had a special place in Malawi’s development. It has always made the list of key drivers contributing…
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Why fuel shortages will keep haunting Malawians
With each day break, a cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the availability of fuel at pump stations in Malawi…
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Malawi’s destiny in own hands on IMF deal
Malawi is desperately seeking a new Extended Credit Facility (ECF) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hoping to unlock foreign…
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Why fuel shortages will keep haunting Malawians
With each day break, a cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the availability of fuel at pump stations in Malawi…
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The fall and resurrection of MTL
In 2018, I briefly chronicled how Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) tumbled from being the gigantic telecommunications player it was to…
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Investment in energy critical to MW2063 success
To many Malawian electricity consumers, having uninterrupted supply in a 24-hour cycle is a cause for celebration and at the…
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Why public debt should worry every patriotic Malawian
Reading between the lines, the sentiments separately expressed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank recently show…
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How government is killing parastatals softly
For a moment, let us forget about the failure by Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to meet customers’ demand…
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Malawi can do better on Agoa, other initiatives
It is 22 years since Malawi became one of 40 sub-Saharan African countries privileged to have duty-free access to the…
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Malawi can do better on Agoa, other initiatives
It is 22 years since Malawi became one of 40 sub-Saharan African countries privileged to have duty-free access to the…
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Why devaluation may have been a misdiagnosis
In a desperate bid to improve availability of foreign exchange in the formal market and stimulate the economy, the Reserve…
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Why public debt should worry every patriotic Malawian
Reading between the lines, the sentiments separately expressed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the…
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