The post-election conflict in some parts of Mozambique is delaying the delivery of the Malawi-Mozambique electricity interconnection. Previously scheduled for June this year, delivery will not take place until next October, according to the operations director of ESCOM, the company that distributes electricity in Malawi, quoted by Rádio Moçambique. Maxwell Mulimakwenda said that the...
Around 300,000 civil servants in Malawi have given the government a 14-day ultimatum to increase their salaries by 44% due to the high cost of living. Otherwise they will go on a nationwide strike. Among their main concerns, the civil servants are demanding an increase in public salaries of 44%, including transportation allowances of 100%, according to...
Malawi is "concerned" about the post-election crisis in Mozambique and is urging the parties to find ways to resolve the conflict, which is also putting the development of the southern African region at risk. The concern, according to "O País" , was expressed by the Malawian President's representative in Mozambique, after a meeting with...
More than 2,000 Mozambican families have sought refuge in Malawi this week due to a wave of demonstrations protesting the election results of October 9. Foreign companies and operations in Mozambique are facing disruptions amid ongoing protests and a deadly prison riot that resulted in the escape of more than 1,500 prisoners,...
Malawian oil companies have partially suspended fuel imports from the Port of Beira in the face of post-election demonstrations taking place in some parts of central Mozambique. The situation has exacerbated the fuel crisis in the southern region of Malawi, especially in the city of Blantyre, which currently imports fuel from the port...
Today in Lilongwe, Mozambique and Malawi signed the Simplified Trade Regime Framework between the two countries, as a result of four rounds of negotiations. The understanding focuses on taking advantage of opportunities for cooperation, under the bilateral preferential initiatives, with the simplification of cross-border customs procedures for traders from...
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, clarified this Wednesday in Malawi that there was no concession of the Port of Nacala, in Nampula, to the Malawian government, as is speculated by some citizens. Filipe Nyusi, quoted by Rádio Moçambique , clarified at a meeting he held this Wednesday with the Mozambican community living in Malawi, that the government...
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, is on a two-day working visit to the Republic of Malawi, at the invitation of his counterpart, Lazarus Chakwera. The aim of the Head of State's visit to Malawi is to strengthen and deepen the historic relations of friendship, solidarity and cooperation that exist between...
Monkeypox is an imminent threat in some southern African countries, including Mozambique, which has a suspected case. Malawi has already registered two suspected cases since the beginning of last week. This prompted the country's government to introduce compulsory monkeypox screening last Friday,...
Malawi has received an insurance payout of 11.2 million dollars (10.1 million euros), due to a devastating drought linked to El Niño that led the country to declare a state of calamity in March. The payment was delivered to Malawi this month, the African Development Bank announced yesterday. O...