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Request QuoteCollins Mtika is a Malawian Investigative Journalist and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in Malawi (CIJM). He has worked for the country's biggest newspaper company, Blantyre Newspapers Limited that publishes, The Daily Times, Sunday Times, Malawi News and The weekend Times where he was Bureau Chief for the Northern region. He heads the Investigations desk for Malawi’s www.nyasatimes.com. He is also the Malawi Correspondent for South African based weekly Mail & Guardian Newspaper and the Malawi Correspondent for the African Independent, also a South African based weekly newspaper.
For 154 years now successive Malawi governments have stood by and watched while a British colonial law enacted in 1861 though meant to serve women’s lives then – is now sending more women to the grave than to the world. Abortion in Malawi is severely restricted under the country’s penal code. It is legally allowed only when a woman’s life is danger and only in the first trimester.
Malawians are fronting Chinese Business persons in the acquisition oflicenses to harvest natural timberat the country’s natural forests reserves. A parliamentary investigation has revealed that most of these culprits are Malawi cabinet ministers and members of parliament. This illegal practice is denying the locals the right to participate in economic activity, subsequently leading to loss of reve
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Wildlife criminals operate with relative impunity and the largest ivory seizure of all time reported to CITES (7 tonnes seized in 2002) was exported from Malawi.
The listing on the Malawi Stock Exchange enabled Airtel Malawi to comply with the country’s Communications Act of 2016, which required the firm to have at least 20 percent local shareholding.A few months prior to the much-hyped initial public offering (IPO) in 2019, Airtel Malawi’s accounts show ‘questionable’ transactions to its parent company in the Netherlands, Bharti Airtel Malawi Holdings BV, Kenya based Airtel Africa and also to a sister entity called Malawi Towers.
Malawi is endowed with vast mineral resources such as gemstones, rubies, gold, niobium, sand dust lime, and others, but the southern African country remains one of the poorest in the world.After decades of using an outdated mining law of 1981, a new mines and minerals law was passed in 2018 and gazetted in 2019. This new law is meant to bring sanity in the mining sector in Malawi by ensuring that mineral resources benefit the economy and attract much needed investments, which can have a bearing on the lives of communities where mining is taking place.
The lack of a “ a whole government” approach to the management of the once glorious and paranomic Viphya Plantation in Mzimba District in northern Malawi, has seen MK1.7 billion meant for a ‘turbo-charged’ restoration drive suffering the same fate as the trees it was meant to rekindle – ‘deforested’.
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