Last week, The Nation (Thursday 27 June 2013; article not online – see image below) reported that Michael Nevin, the British High Commissioner to Malawi, expressed Britain’s commitment to helping Malawi develop a […]
On Friday 17 May 2013, Malawi’s president Joyce Banda gave a State of the Nation Address to open the 2013/2014 Budget meeting of Parliament in Lilongwe. Before this address was […]
In March, we blogged that the Board of Directors of Globe Metals & Mining had postponed a decision to give the go-ahead for the Kanyika Niobium Project in Mzimba because of ongoing […]
On Wednesday 10 April, the Ministry of Mining launched the Mines and Minerals Policy (available online from the Extractive Industries Sourcebook after we uploaded the document on Twitter earlier today) […]
Intra Energy Corporation (IEC) announced today that it will construct and operate a 120MW (net) coal fired power station in Malawi through a wholly owned subsidiary. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding […]
A couple of days ago, Malawi’s national daily The Nation ran the story “The politics of oil exploration on Lake Malawi” by Wisdom Chimgwede. Several claims are made in this […]
Sydney A Ndembe posted his opinion in The Nation’s advertising section on the 24 December 2012. He asks, “who owns the lake?” and strongly condemns any talk or actions that […]
In 2010, the Government of Malawi set up a taskforce housed under the Ministry of Finance to pave the way for Malawi to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative […]