Waste management challenges in Lilongwe

Lilongwe is the largest city in Malawi with 670,000 people growing by a rate of 4.3 percent per year, one of the makes fastest growing regions in the country. But with that growth comes major challenges dealing with waste management.

The city has experienced the influx of rural immigration in the recent past years due to anticipation of good life in urban areas through employment and businesses; no wonder the city registers an urbanisation rate of about eight percent making it one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Puma Energy to acquire BP Malawi

Puma Energy, a Swiss-based energy is to acquire BP Malawi following the company’s interest to buy off the remaining 50 percent shares of the country’s largest fuel provider which are owned by Press Corporation Limited (PCL).


Puma Energy, a subsidiary of a Dutch-based Trafigura Limited oil group, already bought off the other 50 percent shares from BP Malawi.

Malawi sets to fight corruption in HIV funds

The Malawi National AIDS Commission (NAC) has launched the fraud and corruption prevention strategy to create awareness of corruption and fraud issues amongst all implementers of HIV/AIDS activities.

Chairman of NAC Archbishop Emeritus Bernard Malango said the policy is one of the key products of the cooperation that was facilitated by the MOU which they signed with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). 

MTV awards: P-Square tops nominations

Nigerian artists, P-Squre has dominated the nominations list for the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA), according to the press release from TV Networks Africa and Zain.


The MAMA 2010 is sponsored by Zain in association with MasterCard. Arik Air is the official airline partner of the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain

Majete Wildlife Reserve-Malawi’s best kept secret

Seventy kilometres southwest of Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, lies Majete Wildlife Reserve (MWR) which covers nearly 70, 000 hectors of thriving wilderness.

This is the park which government abandoned after heavy poaching by the people from the surrounding villages, thanks to African Parks, which came to the rescue in 2003.