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Energy Minister Matola pledges to work with Anglican Church in promoting clean energy interventions

June 25, 2022

Bishop Malawi with Matola during the function * The Diocese of Upper Shire is set to construct an 8 megawatts solar project * Whose concept was already submitted to the Ministry of Energy some two years ago * The Minister assured to engage with relevant offices to work towards actualisation of the project By Duncan Mlanjira At the ordination of two priests and the Collation of three Canons of the Cathedral of Anglican Church’s Diocese of Upper Shire, Minister…

CAMA demands government to temporarily remove all levies on fuel to cushion consumers

June 25, 2022

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* During this difficult time, President Lazarus Chakwera approved the reintroduction of both old and new levies or taxes on prices of fuel * Yet the President and his Ministers are given free fuel for doing absolutely nothing at the expense of the poor Consumers * CAMA is also asking the President to immediately come up with realistic austerity measures for himself and his friends in Cabinet By Duncan Mlanjira Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) says the recent high…

NOCMA deemed to contribute towards recent high fuel prices through its commitment to pay extra costs for fuel importation assigned to private transporter association

June 25, 2022

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PIL will now be transporting its fuel products using cargo trains from the Mozambican port of Nacala * The supplier in Tanzania, Camel Oil is offering the rates that are lower than MERA’s prescribed Fuel Haulage Rates * Which have just been revised upwards on the 10th of April, 2022 * Thus NOCMA committing to top up the difference between the two rates to be within the country’s Regulated Rates * NOCMA offering the Association a Credit Facility for…

Airport Development Limited’s to expand its solar farm to feed into national power grid

June 24, 2022

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The solar farm at Kamuzu International Airport * This has come at a time when the country is still facing difficulties in power supply * A lot of areas across the country are experiencing more blackouts due to load shedding of about 4-6 hours per day By Ivy Kapaswiche, MANA Airport Development Limited (ADL) says it is finalising all processes to expand its solar farm project at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) to contribute more onto the national power supply. This…

MP Joyce Chitsulo sues Lilongwe man for circulating on social media allegations she is on Sattar’s corruption list

June 24, 2022

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MP Chitsulo, who is chairperson of the Parliamentary Public Affairs Committee * Khoma alleged that Chitsulo was used as Parliamentary Committee chairperson to reject Chizuma from being ACB director general * Ordered to pay within 7 days from the date of receiving the summons (dated June 13) the sum of K100 million * In aggravated damages for libel to sufficiently compensate the claimant for the ridicule that she has endured * And the loss of reputation that she has…

Public expresses their disdain over UTM Party’s sympathisers gathering outside Chilima’s residence following reports of ACB’s visit to interrogate him

June 24, 2022

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The supporters captured loafing outside Chilima’s residence * They are not doing Chilima any favour but rather tarnishing and discrediting his earlier statement * In which he had expressed willingness to be engaged as such * “I admire how some people love individual politicians more than their country — this is what is killing Malawi as a country * We love politics too much than development. Let the ACB do their job without any hindrance or intimidation from anyone…

HRDC bemoans weak Opposition as the DPP is embroiled in internal leadership wrangles

June 23, 2022

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Better days between APM and Nankhumwa * The internal fights are rendering it too ineffective to provide the necessary checks and balances * As well as offer alternative policy options to Tonse Administration’s handling of national issues * The UDF has folded into a briefcase with little or no influence on the country’s national affairs By Duncan Mlanjira Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) contends that the internal leadership stand-off in the high echelons of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)…

‘The stench of evil twins of corruption and fraud are still largely responsible for Malawi’s retarded development’—HRDC

June 23, 2022

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* To this day, there is rampant suspected corruption and abuse of public resources * As well as gapping loopholes in public financial systems that have resulted in the loss of Billions of public funds * The gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of the levels of suspected corruption is like day and night By Duncan Mlanjira Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says President Lazarus Chakwera that in his early major campaign speeches, he had vowed “to disinfect…

ACB arrests fired IG implicated corruption case involving Sattar; As Chilima breaks silence on his own corruption involvement

June 23, 2022

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Fired IG George Kainja * Chilima maintains that at no point has he ever been involved in any perverted or criminal scheme as suggested by the Bureau * He further finds it curious that, to date, the Bureau has not confronted him with the said allegations of criminal conduct * So that he has the opportunity of making representations on the same By Duncan Mlanjira Breaking news coming in is that the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested recently-fired Inspector…

HRDC attacks Tonse Alliance government of mismanaging the economy and indecisiveness and slow decision-making

June 23, 2022

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President Chakwera leads the Tonse Alliance * The rapid depletion of forex has pushed the Malawi kwacha to depreciate by around 75% over the past 24 months * Contributing sharply to the rising cost of living and general economic pain Malawians are feeling right now * The Tonse administration “sits on the largest budget deficit on record amid piling public debt on the back of largely unproductive spending * And that “the high levels of debt, both foreign and…