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With the cost of living on the rise, prices of Sugar in Malawi have also peaked in recent years to the extent that very few can afford the product.

Sugar price rise to K2000

Nov 10, 2023 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Illovo Sugar Malawi has raised the price of 1 Kilogram of brown sugar from K1450 to K2000. The company has said this in a statement today. Price of a packet of white sugar has also… ...

Sosten Gwengwe is a politician in Malawi who serves as a Member of Parliament and a cabinet minister

CDEDI wants Gwengwe to act on Sugar pricing

Oct 09, 2023 Martha Chikoti 0 &

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called on Minister of Trade and Industry Sosten Gwengwe to act on sugar pricing so that that the price of sugar in Malawi should go… ...

CFTC Executive Director Lloyd Vincent Nkhoma

Illovo under fire for hiking sugar prices

Aug 29, 2023 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

The Competition and Fair Trading Commission (CFTC), has recommended Illovo Sugar Malawi for prosecution for what it has labelled as “unjustifiable” hiking of sugar prices in October last year and has ordered that the prices… ...

Former Member of Parliament Henry Chimunthu Banda

Sugarcane growers push for Sugar Industry Bill

Aug 10, 2023 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Sugarcane Growers Association of Malawi (SGAM) has asked Members of the Parliament to discuss and pass Sugar Industry Bill so that some of the challenges growers face should be addressed. One of the growers, Henry… ...

CDEDI wants MRA to investigate Illovo over Sugar transfer pricing

Jul 27, 2023 Martha Chikoti 0 &

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) to investigate IIIovo Sugar company over transfer pricing of sugar to other countries. CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa made… ...

Sugar in Malawi is becoming a very expensive commodity that very few people are able to afford

Transporters worried over Illovo Malawi’s decision to offer business to foreign companies

Jul 17, 2023 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Transporters Association of Malawi (TAM) says it is saddened with the decision by Illovo Sugar Malawi to offer international sugar haulage contracts to foreign transport companies. This is contained in a TAM Monday press statement… ...

Six percent reduction in industrial sugar price is a mockery— CDEDI

Jul 01, 2023 Martha Chikoti 0 &

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says the reduction of industrial sugar price by 6 percent is not enough because what is needed to be reduced is price of domestic sugar which… ...