Category: International

* In the early 1960s, South Korea was a wartorn, aid-dependent country with very limited natural resources * Estimates place South Korea’s GDP per capita in 1961 at roughly US$82-100 — a level below that of Malawi, Ghana, or Kenya at the time * The economy was predominantly agrarian, unemployment was widespread, and foreign aid financed a significant share of public expenditure * Six decades later, South Korea is a high income economy with GDP per capita exceeding US$33,000,…

Read More

* And the strategies that should be put in place to safeguard competition and consumer protection in Malawi  * To be aired on MBC tomorrow December 5th involving experts from the Ministry of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism, MACRA), ICTAM), the COMESA Competition Commission and the CFTC By Duncan Mlanjira The Competition & Fair Trading Commission (CFTC) will tomorrow, December 5, join the global community in commemorating the World Competition Day (WCD) under the theme; ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI), Consumers…

Read More

* It is not only Tanzania that bore the brunt of the chaos, the post-election unrest was felt deep inside Malawi * With hundreds of transporters — including fuel tankers — trapped at the Kasumulu Border and supply chains grinding to a halt * For days, the normally busy border post between Songwe and Kasumulu was under lockdown following violent protests in southern Tanzania, which saw mobs clash with police, vandalise customs offices, and disrupt communication networks By Odindo…

Read More

* Africa’s long-term growth trajectory will be determined by the continent’s ability to close its infrastructure gap * Estimated at US$130 billion to US$170 billion annually, with a funding shortfall of up to US$108 billion—DCG’s Director of Project Finance, Loyiso Jiya By Duncan Mlanjira As South Africa and the continent as a whole is set to host the Group of Twenty (G20) Johannesburg 2025 summit from November 22-23; for the first time in its history, Don Consultancy Group (DCG)…

Read More

* Registered in Malawi as Rayoni Tourism Airline and is also known as Flytech Aviation Group that is alleged to have purchased four A340-600s Airbuses from Thai Airways * With the suspicion that they will eventually be flown to Iran under false flight plans to circumvent U.S. and EU aviation sanctions By Duncan Mlanjira Air Data News — managed by various organisations and companies, including the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that provides air transport data and analysis —…

Read More