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Did the Debt Retirement Fund die on arrival?
Faced with a heavy debt burden, in 2021 the Malawi Government mooted a plan to establish a Debt Retirement Fund…
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Bravo Lilongwe City Council
A few days ago, Lilongwe City Council (LCC) slashed some maize planted in prohibited places within the city. In a…
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Auntie spent night with guard in maize field
Munthu Wamkulu, You know Thyolo is one of the districts that will face acute hunger this year. I am not…
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Corruption as an elephant
February 29 2024 Dear Diary, A story is told of two men who went into a museum way back. In…
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Same script written by UDF, perfected by DPP
Violence—in all its manifestations—and regardless of its perpetrator, should be condemned in the strongest terms. My understanding is that the…
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Why delays on death benefits?
Recently, there have been accusations against government departments relating to delays in disbursing funds to beneficiaries of deceased estates. Our…
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The sadists in our city halls
City councils in Malawi are sadists and their callousness prays on the poorest of the poor in their areas of…
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SFFRFM seeks 1998 fertiliser payment
The Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) has asked government to replenish its warehouses with 89 000 metric…
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Forestry key to economic growth
Forests are a lifeline to the ecological health and well-being of humanity, but their ability to provide these benefits is…
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Enough of the lies, ultimatums
President Lazarus Chakwera last week broke his silence on the passport crisis in the country and directed the Department of…
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An appropriate solution can be found
In 2015, I had the opportunity to visit a government press of an African country. That time, I was the…
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No lullabies on passport crisis; plan for hunger
Two things President Lazarus Chakwera and his administration must deal with as a matter of urgency. The perennial passport production…
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Listen to Evison Matafale, seriously
In No winner, No loser, the great reggae musician, Evison Matafale, founder of the Black Missionaries Band, reminds us that…
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MPs, too, will lose out on passports
Dear Diary, As I write, the heat is so intense as if we were in October. Maize is wilting in…
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Still waiting for accountability on Covid-19 money
Malawi was not spared the destruction and devastation unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people died. Thousands were hospitalised…
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RBM and its mwamuna wa jumbo syndrome
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) is neither independent from Malawi Government nor free from International Monetary Fund (IMF). It…
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Why inflation rate should be our concern
Fresh from last week’s Valentine’s Day festive mood that was somehow subdued by the observance of Ash Wednesday, marking the…
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Loans are not freebies
In December, Mibawa Television interviewed Mike Chilewe on his riches-to-rags story. The one-time business magnate blamed nobody for his fate,…
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Unfollowed systems are useless
As I drove through the Haile Selassie Road in Central Blantyre last Sunday evening, a peculiar absence struck me with…
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DPP’s arrogance will come to bite them
Last week Monday, Speaker of the National Assembly, Catherine Gotani Hara suspended for two days four Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)…
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