Month: August 2022 Posts

Grouping to hold demos over Chingeni-Balaka-Liwonde-Zomba road

Aug 06, 2022 Macdonald Kaleso 1 &

Advocacy For Eastern Region Development (AFERD), a grouping of concerned citizens from the Eastern region has disclosed that it will hold mass demonstrations aimed at forcing the Government to consider rehabilitating Chingeni-Balaka-Liwonde-Zomba road which according… ...

M1 rehabilitation funded by €95.5m loan from EIB

Jul 14, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Malawi has borrowed €95.5 million (K98.7 billion) from European Investment Bank (EIB) to rehabilitate part of the M1 Road, covering a stretch of 301 kilometres from Lumbadzi in Lilongwe to Chiweta in Rumphi. Apart from… ...

Chakwera says development partners must support development projects

Jul 12, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says Malawi’s development partners must have development projects such as roads, prisons and schools which they are supporting rather than only supporting social programs whose sustainability cannot be guaranteed. Chakwera made the… ...

Grouping demands rehabilitation of M5 Road

Jul 09, 2022 Macdonald Kaleso 0 &

Advocacy for Eastern Region Development (AFERD) has given Government seven days to respond to concerns over the delayed rehabilitation of the Chingeni-Balaka-Zomba section of the M5 Road which is said to have turned into a… ...

Upgrading of Namiwawa road in Zomba to be completed in 60 days

Jul 06, 2022 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Zomba City Mayor, Councillor Davie Maunde, says upgrading of Namiwawa Road from double lane to four lanes which was supposed to be completed on 19 July will take 60 more days. The Mayor disclosed this… ...

Chakwera to launch M1 Road rehabilitation project next week

Jul 05, 2022 Mike Lyson Zgambo 2 &

President Lazarus Chakwera will launch the rehabilitation of the M1 Road from Lilongwe to Chiweta in Rumphi on July 12. State House Director of Communications Sean Kampondeni said this at Kamuzu Palace during a quarterly… ...

CDEDI asks govt to develop policies to protect local construction firms

Jun 30, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked government to come up with a deliberate policy to protect local construction companies from being wiped out of the market. The Executive Director for the… ...