Month: January 2017 Posts

Illiteracy blocking e-payment in Malawi – RBM

Jan 31, 2017 Luke Bisani 6 &

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has disclosed that illiteracy is contributing to low use of electronic payment services in the country. According to RBM statistics, only 40 percent of the country's population is able… ...

AfDB approves $20m for Meridian’s soft commodity value chain operations in Malawi, others

Jan 30, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved US $20 million to finance Meridian’s soft commodity value chain operations in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. This Soft Commodity Finance Facility is designed to provide pre- and post-shipment… ...

Stop demanding more money from Govt- Malawi Finance Minister tells civil servants

Jan 25, 2017 Bright Malenga 60 &

As Mzuzu University Staffs and other Civil servants are demanding for salary increment ,Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe yesterday told them to stop demanding for more money from government. Due to increase in cost of living… ...

Mutharika applauds World Bank over support

Jan 24, 2017 Luke Bisani 60 &

The news of World Bank coming back to provide budgetary support to Malawi has made the country's leader Peter Mutharika to be happy and to appreciate the support that the country has been getting through… ...

2016 economic challenges to spill over into 2017 – Expert

Jan 03, 2017 Archangel Nzangaya 13 &

An economic expert has said most of the economic challenges Malawians experienced in the just ended year will as well be experienced in 2017. According to the expert who is also the a University of… ...

Malawians in Mzuzu brand 2016 a year of miseries

Jan 01, 2017 Thula Chisamba 17 &

Malawians living in the city of Mzuzu have described 2016 as a year that exposed them to more casualties and miseries, saying there has been more mourning than celebrations. Speaking in random interviews, the residents… ...

RBM to sensitise Malawians on new K2000

Dec 20, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 14 &

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) says it will continue sensitising Malawians on the features of the new 2000 kwacha note. This is coming after the bank note went into circulation on Monday. Reserve Bank… ...