By Dickson Nighly In-depth reporting & investigative journalist Mwananchi Communications Limited Summary Dar es Salaam. Air Tanzania Company Limited plane has been seized in the Netherlands after a Swedish firm won a $165 million award against Tanzania due to revoked land title in the Bagamoyo sugar project. It is still not clear exactly which aircraft on […]
Polymed Savings and Credit Cooperative has made a profit of K62 million during the 2021 Financial Year. The SACCO’s General Manager, Mary Bokosi Musona, attributed the success to increased growth of membership as a result of a new marketing strategy and introductions of soft loans to some members who were retrenched due to Covid-19. Polymed […]
Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change has described the Transforming Landscapes and Livelihoods Project as key to helping Malawi restore 4.5 million hectares of land degraded by human activities. Principal Secretary in the ministry, James Ali, said this in Lilongwe during the launch of transforming landscapes and Livelihoods Project. The project seeks to accelerate […]
President Felipe Nyusi of the Republic of Mozambique has arrived in Malawi through Kamuzu International Airport. On arrival, the Mozambican President was welcomed by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nancy Tembo, Minister of Local Government, Professor Blessings Chinsinga and Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Colleen Zamba, among other Malawi Government officials. Nyusi inspected a guard […]
Neno district has recorded 41. 67% decrease in cases of Gender Based Violence-GBV agaist 46% last year. District Social Welfare Officer Paul Sosono disclosed this during the commemoration of 16 days of Activisim against Gender based violence in the district while calling on men to break the silence by reporting GBV cases. Sosono said out […]
FDH Bank plc has renewed its contract with musician Patience Namadingo as the bank’s brand ambassador for digital banking. Namadingo has signed a two-year contract worth K60 million, unveiled earlier today at the bank’s headquarters in Blantyre. FDH Bank plc senior manager for digital banking Yamikani Mbawala said they want to build on the gains […]
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has assured the Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services of its unwavering support in ensuring the organisation has implemented good programmes aimed at dealing away with corruption at all its formations. Speaking during the orientation of the institutional integrity Committees (IICS), Director of Corruption Prevention, Mary Phombeya, said the organisation […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Jacob Hara has disclosed that Malawian Airlines has replaced its aircraft, a Boeing 737-700, with a bigger one, a Boeing 737-800. According to Hara, the airline has taken this move following recent unprecedented growth in demand for air services, especially between Malawi and South Africa. “There has been an […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost the political support of the African National Congress-ANC and is “very likely” to announce his resignation as head of state in the next few hours. An independent panel appointed by the speaker to investigate whether there was any evidence of wrongdoing on President Ramaphosa’s part in the Phala […]
Some beneficiaries of government inputs subsidiary program have started purchasing the cheap fertilizer only in Mangochi without seeds. A visit by Malawi Wathu Online to Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi depot was welcomed by a large group that queued to access the fertilizer. Ishmael Wedi from Chomba village, Traditional Authority Mponda who was […]
