The growing need to restore the National Railways of Zimbabwe to full operational status is now being attended to with the African Export Import Bank prepared to lend US$115 million to initiate the process. The railways are not dead. They still move 2,3 million tonnes of cargo a year, but this is a little over 16 percent of the 14 million tonnes they moved in the 1990s and just under 13 percent of the 18…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the negative impact of climate change could affect Malawi’s growth prospects, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and worsen the country’s development challenges. In a paper published on the IMF website www.imf.org titled ‘Climate challenges in fragile and conflict-affected areas, the global lender says that persistent changes in climate change have long-term negative effects on the country’s economic growth, as such, there is a need for authorities to…