Category: National

* Petrol goes up from K3,499 to K4,965 (41.90%) and diesel from K3,500 to K4,965 (41.29%) * In the last three years, the Automatic pricing Mechanism was abandoned in favour of a fixed pricing regime that proved to be commercially unsustainable * Artificially low fuel prices created arbitrage opportunities for fuel smuggling, causing the loss of scarce foreign exchange and depletion of the country’s strategic fuel reserves By Patience Longwe, MANA Malawi Energy Regulatory (MERA) says the fuel hike…

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* Mobilising local resources to transform Malawi’s economy is a pathway to dignity, sovereignty, and inclusive growth — built from within * By mobilising its own fiat and fiduciary resources within a credible, rule-based system, the country can finance the industries, infrastructure, and social systems required for sustained prosperity By Duncan Mlanjira As Malawi, under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration, grapples on how to turn around the country’s ailing economy inherited from the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), economic…

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MACRA acting Director General, Mayamiko Nkoloma (right) during an engagement with ICTAM president Clarence Gama * While several telecoms players are investing in infrastructure, there is a need for deliberate coordination to ensure services are well spread across the country * In order to reach underserved areas, and provide the bandwidth required for today’s digital services. * Encouragingly, Malawi is already implementing projects aimed at connecting the unconnected. This year, new telecom towers are planned for under-served regions By…

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* The submission made at the 2026/27 national pre-budget consultation meetings is polished in tone but hollow in substance * It reads more like a ceremonial opening statement than a serious engagement with the depth of Malawi’s economic crisis * While it repeatedly invokes “consultation,” “listening,” and “inclusive dialogue”, it avoids confronting the hard policy choices and failures that have brought the economy to its current state By Duncan Mlanjira Canada-based economic analyst, Dr. James Kadyampakeni observes that Minister…

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* To serve three critical functions: frequency regulation; integrating renewables and reducing load shedding * We are moving from the design phase to the reality of a modernised power system for all Malawians—acting CEO Eng. Maliano By Duncan Mlanjira The battery energy storage system (BESS) project being undertaken by Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited towards Malawi’s stable energy evolution, is now firmly on track following the arrival of 12 BESS containers 20MW units at project site, Kanengo…

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* I know what you are doing regarding money laundering and other illegal money transactions, and authorities are on the ground to act * I do not want to see a situation where a bank has been closed solely because it facilitated this malpractice. Let us all work together to manage this economy By Memory Kutengule Chatonda, MANA Minister of Finance, Economic Planning & Decentralisation, Joseph Mwanamvekha, has warned business leaders, banks and money transfer operators, against engaging in…

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