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Malawi e-passport includes mobile money transfers and onsite payment systems

July 25, 2025

* As well as an online application to enable Malawians submit their applications and online appointment booking * It has been enhanced with a duly encoded chip in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards and specifications * As the passport issuance at the Immigration Department has successfully migrated from temporary solution to permanent one By Duncan Mlanjira The Ministry of Homeland Security has announced that processing and issuance of passports will now be seamless at the Department…

Standard Bank is walking the talk on financial inclusion, access and sustainable market development—Malawi Stock Exchange

July 24, 2025

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MSE Board chairperson, Prof. James Kamwachale Khomba * In doing so, you’re not only strengthening your own position — you’re strengthening the ecosystem around you * Your decision to implement a share split is bold, strategic, and forward-looking—MSE Board chairperson, Kamwachale Khomba By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) profoundly believes that Standard Bank’s foresight in implementing its share split — in which an additional 938,672,648 ordinary shares were listed on the Main Board of the Exchange — the…

Standard Bank’s share split set to unlock investment potential for more Malawians

July 24, 2025

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* From a trading price of MK12,050 per share last week, Standard Bank shares are now trading at around MK2,410 per share * This revised price point significantly lowers the barrier to entry, enabling more Malawians — from institutional investors to individual citizens — to own a piece of Standard Bank By Duncan Mlanjira Standard Bank Plc has split its shares on Malawi Stock Exchange, thereby empowering broader financial inclusion, strengthening capital market participation, and unlocking investment potential for…

FAM president Haiya applauds fans for embracing e-ticketing and advance ticket sales for Airtel Top 8 2025 final

July 23, 2025

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* From record-breaking match revenue of K216 million, 78% has been realised from e-ticketing and pre-sales * A demonstration of the progress we are making in marketing our game and implementing robust financial controls By Duncan Mlanjira Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president, Fleetwood Haiya applauds the 40,000 passionate fans who packed Bingu National Stadium for the Airtel Top 8 2025 final between Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers, saying their response to e-ticketing and advance ticket sales is…

Party manifestos should be presented with realistic solutions and not burdens to an already ailing economy—Chief Economist Chifipa Mhango

July 21, 2025

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* Who prepared this MCP Manifesto? Did they think carefully, based on reality and challenges facing the country?; * Economically from fiscal regime, monetary policy — to trade & industry policy failures? and they thought giving Mk500,000 to a new born is an ideal path? * Let’s be realistic than driven by electioneering greed for power to the point of taking advantage of the poverty that we created through economic mismanagement By Duncan Mlanjira The pledge of a K500,000…

Analyst Dr. Kadyampakeni questions where the K500,000 ‘future account’ for every newborn child will come from

July 20, 2025

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* When hospitals lack medicine, schools lack desks, and government can barely pay civil servants on time * This is another empty promise — Chakwera’s new manifesto is just more rhetoric to hoodwink Malawians * He must first explain what happened to the grand promises he made in 2020 when he promised he would create 1 million jobs within his administration’s first year By Duncan Mlanjira Canada-based economic analyst, Dr. James Kadyampakeni implores on Malawians to be wary “of…

Eng. Vitumbiko Mumba bemoans lack of code of ethics in construction industry

July 19, 2025

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* Other professionals such as lawyers, medical doctors and accountants that face disciplinary action for unethical conduct * But the construction professionals do not get punishment for their poor workmanship and other professional malpractices in the industry By Pempho Nkhoma, MANA Minister of Trade & Industry, Vitumbiko Mumba, has bemoaned and attributed Malawi’s poor quality infrastructure to the construction industry’s lack of a code of ethics, emphasising the need for professionals in the sector to adopt set of principles…

While the government aimed for a ‘corruption-free, efficient administration, the country has witnessed corruption of the worst type—Onjezani Kenani

July 19, 2025

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* As he dissects the Malawi Congress Party 2025 Manifesto launched today at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe * The MCP-led government established a special Financial Crimes Division of the High Court (an anti-corruption court) in 2021 to fast-track corruption cases * But corruption scandals — including allegations involving high-profile officials — made the goal to remain unmet By Duncan Mlanjira Economic & social justice influencer, Onjezani Kenani has analysed Malawi Congress Party (MCP) 2025 Manifesto that was launched…

Economic think tanks’ exasperation over the state of Malawi economy draws top government technocrats to recognise need for total engagement towards its recovery

July 19, 2025

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* After the Malawians in diaspora maintained that the declining inflation rate at 27.1% as of June 2025 shouldn’t be celebrated for as it is way too high * Fellow Malawians, you have grown numb to pain. This level of inflation must never ever be accepted — it is ruining your standard of living and it is wrong Analysis by Duncan Mlanjira Exasperated with the state of the economy, Malawian economic think tanks based in the diaspora expressed their…

Inflation declines for the fourth consecutive month—RBM Deputy Governor Kisu Simwaka

July 18, 2025

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* It continues to descend slowly, reaching 27.1% in June 2025 — supported by softening food prices * Food inflation — “which accounts for more than half of the country’s inflation basket — dropped to 31.6% from 44.9% in January 2024 * Non-food inflation edged down to 20.1%, from 22% in January 2024 — but while inflation has been decelerating in recent months, it remains high By Duncan Mlanjira Ahead of the official launch of the Reserve Bank of…