The Daily Times is reporting that a new steel rolling factory worth K1 billion, that uses recycled scrap metal to manufacture steel bars, has opened at Makata industrial site in Blantyre, Malawi.The company, called Malawi Iron and Steel Corporation Limited (Miscor), is born out of the premises and left-over equipment of former Agrimal and Encor [...]

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In her talk at the recent NYU Development Research Institute conference on What Would the Poor Say: Debates in Aid Evaluation in New York City, June Arungo, Director of Corporate Affairs at BSL,  said that the aid industry is responsible for human resource diversion in Africa. She further pointed out that it is very easy [...]

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Lives of thousands and thousands of poor people in the rural areas of Kenya are being transformed because of M-PESA, a service that allows users to transfer money using a mobile phone. M-PESA (M for Mobile and PESA for money in Swahili), operated by Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile operator,  is tailored for mobile customers who [...]

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