{"id":3089,"date":"2011-07-01T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2011-07-01T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:17:07","slug":"84-7-million-to-power-malawis-power-maravi-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/84-7-million-to-power-malawis-power-maravi-post\/","title":{"rendered":"$84.7 million to power Malawi&#8217;s power | Maravi Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3090\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3090\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3090\" title=\"sanda-world-bank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sanda-world-bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"276\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Bloemenkamp - World Bank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BLANTYRE&#8211;The World Bank has bankrolled Malawi with $84.7 million&#8211;K12.7 billion&#8211;to power the country&#8217;s poor power system.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the funds, said the bank&#8217;s country manager for Malawi, Sandra Bloemenkamp, will help to improve the capacity of ESCOM systems to transmit electricity using improved technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The existing system is greatly strained and the frequency of both scheduled and unscheduled electricity supply interruptions is increasing, affecting businesses and households,&#8221; the local WB chief was quoted as saying in the\u00a0<em>Daily Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will also be used to finance feasibility studies for possible new hydropower stations\u00a0at different locations in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi&#8217;s power comes from hydro stations on Shire River, the longest river which flows out of Lake Malawi and splashes into Mozambique.&#8211;maravipost<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLANTYRE&#8211;The World Bank has bankrolled Malawi with $84.7 million&#8211;K12.7 billion&#8211;to power the country&#8217;s poor power system. Part of the funds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[387,817,695,791],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-electricity-2","tag-escom","tag-power","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}