We show prices for Malawi from 20-Oct-2014 to 26-Jan-2015. The average value for Malawi during that period was 1.65 US Dollar with a minimum of 1.51 US Dollar on 19-Jan-2015 and a maximum of 1.7 US Dollar on 10-Nov-2014. For comparison, the average price of gasoline in the world for this period is 1.11 US Dollar.

Malawi’s pump prices for petrol and diesel are decreasing according to latest data from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, a situation that decreases operating business costs and should uplift living standards of Malawians.

Continue reading Muluzi says Malawi is looking for ways to lower Gasoline prices as world prices continue to decline →

Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson announced that Iceland would provide UNICEF ISK 10 million (USD 75,000, EUR 66,000) in humanitarian assistance to Malawi in light of recent floods in the country. The floods are said to be the worst in Malawi, which has a population of 16 million, in 20 years.

The government of Malawi has issued a state of emergency and called on the international community for assistance following the floods which has left roughly one third of the country submerged.

Many people have died in the floods and more than 120,000 people have been displaced. Schools, homes and crops have been destroyed.

Malawi and Iceland started bilateral development cooperation in 1989. 

Blantyre, Malawi, Jan. 28 (MaraviPost) _ Malawi, over half of its land surface is currently reeling under unprecedented flooding, is on high alert with weathermen forecasting heavy rains and storms ‘in the coming few days’, especially in the flood-prone Southern Region.

Elina Kululanga, head of public weather services in the Department of Climate Change and Weather Services, said in a media statement Wednesday this will be a ‘wet week’ nationwide but a storm will hit the flood-prone Southern Region.

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Members of the Botswana public have sent an unusual message to Nigeria as they seek military support from Africa in the increasingly challenging fight against the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram.

A report from Yarona FM News, one of Botswana’s leading radio stations, sampled public opinion concerning the appeal by the African Union for its members to send soldiers to Nigeria to assist in the fight against Boko Haram.

Continue reading Seek T.B. Joshua’s Help over BOKO HARAM, Botswana citizens Pleas to Nigerians →

Lilongwe, 28 January: President Peter Mutharika declared Malawi a disaster zone earlier this month after floods hit 15 of the country’s 28 districts, leaving more than 200 people dead or missing, and displacing 174 000 people across the country. Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs says 638 000 people have been affected, while Oxfam’s Situation Report indicates that, although data on victims has not yet been desegregated, women and children have been disproportionately affected by the foods. In all camps, women and girls greatly outnumber boys and men. Continue reading Malawi: Flood relief must be gender responsive →

 Malawi’s representatives in this year’s CAF Champions League competition emerged the top earner with K9.3 million in the Sapota Mapeto promotion, an SMS initiative by premier mobile network operator TNM aimed at assisting clubs achieve financial sustainability.

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ATLANTA, Georgia, January 28 (MaraviPost): Malawi’s growth in 2015 will fall short of the 5.8 percent projected at the beginning of the year because of the damage massive floods have caused to the country’s farming industry, said President Peter Mutharika.

“The damage caused by the flood disaster to the economy is estimated at 23.9 billion kwacha ($53 million), excluding the cost of the relief program currently underway,” Mutharika said Tuesday in his state of the nation address, broadcast from the capital, Lilongwe.

Continue reading Mutharika might be faulted on his projection of less growth due to the unprecedented Floods in Malawi →

In a unique display of practical appeal and engagement skills; Malawi ambassador to Japan Major General Reuben Ngwenya seems to be on top of the game if the donations he is securing and sending to Malawi to help the flood victims are anything to go by. Continue reading Be Forward donates K1.2 million to help Malawi flood victims says Ambassador Ngwenya →