Author: peter Kanjere

By Hopeson Kafumbwa, Public Relations Intern Some Mwanza and Neno communities have hailed the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited for drilling four boreholes in the two districts thereby fighting waterborne diseases. The community members said this on November 15, 2024, when ESCOM officials handed over the boreholes to the communities courtesy of the Mozambique-Malawi Interconnection Project (MOMA) Resettlement Action Plan. The corporation handed over three boreholes in Group Village Head (GVH) Chimulango in Traditional Authority (T/A) Ntchache, Mwanza and one in GVH Msalawatha, T/A Mlauli

By Hopeson Kafumbwa, Public Relations Intern Chilimbira Village community under Senior Group Village Headman Mulongolora, Traditional Authority Kanduku in Mwanza erupted in celebration as ESCOM handed over a child-based-care school block in the area on Friday, November 17, 2024. ESCOM handed over the school block to the community as part of the Mozambique-Malawi Interconnection Project (MOMA)’s Resettlement Action Plan to empower people the project has displaced in Mwanza, Neno, and Balaka. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Saidi, who represented Mwanza District Commissioner (DC), commended the chiefs and

A contractor for 400kV New Matambo Substation in Tete, Mozambique, has assured of its completion by December this year. The substation is the hub of the Mozambique-Malawi (MOMA) Power Transmission 400kV Interconnection Project involving Malawi’s implementers, ESCOM Limited and Mozambique’s Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM). Engineer Ju Dafei of JV Sinohydro gave an update when ESCOM Limited’s delegation toured MOMA project construction works on the Mozambique side from October 1 to 4 2024. “We hope to energise this substation by December. We are very optimistic,” Dafei told the

Minister of Energy Ibrahim Matola has said the Mozambique-Malawi (MOMA) Power Transmission 400kV Interconnection Project has the potential to become the country’s foreign exchange earner thereby spurring economic growth. Matola said this at Phombeya Power Substation on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, after a MOMA media tour that the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited organized from Mwanza, Neno to Balaka. He said the power utility company invited the media to tour the 77-kilometre high voltage transmission line route from Mwanza Border to appreciate the progress of