By Collins Mtika  Planting trees outside secondary schools, funding programmes to end child marriage, giving.

By CIJM Reporters The debt that Malawi’s Farm Input Loan Programme (Filp) owes to foreign.

Malawi’s graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has stalled investigations on suspicious donations that were allegedly made to former president Joyce Banda’s Mudzi Transformation from Rakgas in exchange for the controversial awarding of exploration licences for oil blocks.

An explanation has been demanded for a $235,700 payment from a firm that landed major oil and gas exploration concessions on Lake Malawi.

Eighteen months after Cashgate hit the headlines in Malawi, only five of the 68 people arrested in connection with the scandal have been tried and convicted. About R2.1-million – less than one percent of the estimated loss to government – has been recovered.