Malawi has renewed its call for increased private-sector investment to accelerate its industrialisation ambitions, Secretary for Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism Wiskesi Nkombezi has said. Speaking in Lilongwe on Friday, at Impact Integ...

By Kingsley Jassi: The Malawi Economic Justice Network (Mejn) has expressed concern over what it rates as weak budget oversight. It says this is giving the fiscal authorities excessive control, thereby creating room for abuse. This was said on Friday...

As Malawi’s path to prosperity continues to narrow and the likelihood of reaching lower-middle-income status by 2030 grows increasingly remote, the government is turning to an accelerated reform strategy aimed at rescuing the Malawi Implementation ...

Malawi’s push toward the formalisation of businesses is gaining momentum, with statistics showing that more than 51,899 businesses, 6,532 companies and 220 trusts have been registered through the Malawi Business Registration System (MBRS) since its...

Ministry of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism has expressed optimism that the development and roll out of the Malawi National Single Window, a trade facilitation system, will help reduce cases of smuggling in the country. The single wind...

By Pemphero Malimba: Speaker of Parliament Sameer Suleman has said Parliament will start deducting allowances from members of Parliament (MPs) who abscond from deliberations without valid reasons. The measure, he said, would take effect from the firs...

By Nelson Gonjani: Cashflow and other problems have resulted in delays to give ward councillors their honoraria and other benefits, The Daily Times has established. We have also established that the councillors have not received other entitlements si...

When 24-year-old Denis Chikwanje from Mangochi District found himself sleeping behind a refrigerator in a locked shop in South Africa—keys kept by his employer, the exit blocked and the fear of thieves or fire haunting his nights—he realised what...

By Pemphero Malimba: There is a cold war between members of Parliament (MPs) and councils as the MP for Mzimba South Constituency Emmanuel Chambulanyina Jere has asked Parliament to investigate the mandate of the Malawi Local Government Association (...

By Clever Mwale: Former secretary to the president and Cabinet Colleen Zamba was Friday granted bail by the Chief Resident Magistrate’s Court in Lilongwe, two days after her arrest at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday morning while a...