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Zobanduka! Plane fails to land due to blackout at Malawi airport

Aug 20, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

A plane carrying passengers stayed in the air for over 40 minutes at Chileka International Airport but still failed to land due to power outage and it was forced to go back to Lilongwe. According… ...

Malawi to experience over 4hrs of loadshedding

Feb 24, 2020 Daniel Sapuli 0 &

The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) limited has said that from today, many areas in Malawi will experience a four and half hour (4.5) emergency loadshedding a day. ESCOM's Management has said in a… ...

ESCOM celebrates 40 days of no blackouts

Feb 05, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is celebrating 40 days of no blackouts in the country made possible by the onset of rains. In a statement on Tuesday, ESCOM said the last load shedding… ...

The blacker the night, the merry the Christmas – Escom

Dec 17, 2019 Lonjezo Jamu 1 &

A day after Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) said water levels in the Shire River are now normalising, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has announced that loadshedding has been extended. In a statement released today,… ...

Hypocrisy over ESCOM workers suspension

Nov 19, 2019 Luke Bisani 1 &

Malawi’s first citizen Peter Mutharika weeks ago witnessed the sad reality of power outages while presiding over a graduation ceremony at Chancellor College in Zomba. His speech was disrupted not with noise from the graduates… ...

ESCOM workers suspended over power outage that disrupted Mutharika’s speech

Nov 15, 2019 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 1 &

The Electricity Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has suspended nine senior employees over the power outage that disrupted President Peter Mutharika’s speech at Chancellor College last week. The suspended employees are senior members of Staff at… ...

Truck drivers’ strike will worsen Malawi power situation – ESCOM

Oct 23, 2019 Russell Kondowe 0 &

The strike by truck drivers which started on Monday will lead to massive load shedding, the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has warned. The company said this in a statement published on its website… ...

Blackouts return: ESCOM says heavy rains to blame

Mar 08, 2019 Russell Kondowe 1 &

The electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says Malawians should expect power cuts following heavy rains experienced in the Southern Region this week. ESCOM says the rains have deposited trash at its power station and… ...

Residents force ESCOM workers to fix transformer

Jan 17, 2019 Mike Lyson Zgambo 0 &

Angry residents in Mzuzu on Wednesday stopped ESCOM workers from leaving the site of a faulty transformers until the transformer was fixed. People of Zolozolo location in Mzuzu stopped the workers from leaving the transformer… ...