World Bank calls for long-term energy investments. Source: The Nation, Aug 25, 2017

World Bank country manager Greg Toulmin: "It is clear that Malawi needs greater access to energy and that the country needs to build up the transmission backbone, develop better distribution channels, particularly in the rural areas and, of course, it needs to have the power to be able to out in place that system".

Toulmin: "We want to build a connector which should help in providing the power between Malawi and Mozambique so that in the short term, power from Mozambique can supplement the system, but perhaps, in the longer term, who knows, we should have better options".