Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has finally moved its head offices from Blantyre to Lilongwe ahead of the 2025 Tripartite Elections, it has emerged. The relocation was one of the electoral and institutional reforms the electoral body proposed seven years ago as part of reducing MEC’s operational costs by 30 percent. In a brief public notice
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi Limited (Escom) has proposed a 69.7 percent tariff to help it finance operational and capital requirements for the period 2023 to 2027. If Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) approves the proposal wholesale, it will mean that electricity consumers will pay an average of K177.26 per kilowatt hour (kWh) from the
National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) says local hauliers will now bring in 391 million litres of fuel out of the projected 460 million litres this year following a change of system. Following a new arrangement, Nocma has slightly departed from the Delivered at Place Unloaded (DPU) system by adding Ex tank and Cost, Insurance
For the past three months, and counting, Malawian motorists have been subjected to erratic availability of fuel, notably diesel and petrol, a development that has left motorists queuing for hours on end at service stations. Initially, it started as pockets of shortage, which authorities dismissed as logistical glitches in the distribution chain. But now, the
National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) Limited and Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) say they need $740 million (over K740 billion) for fuel imports this financial year. Representatives of the two fuel importers told the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change during a meeting in Lilongwe yesterday that they are targeting to import a