RSS Feed
April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Andrew Mitchell, the Secretary of State for International Development, was
more cautious.
“British development aid provides significant support to the Malawian people
through programmes in health, education and other areas, and I look forward
to discussing the new president’s priorities and responding to them,” he
said.
Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, the British High Commissioner, was expelled from Malawi
in April last year after WikiLeaks revealed that he had described wa
Mutharika as “ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism”.
In July, Britain announced that it was cutting the £19m portion of the £93m it
spends on average each year in Malawi that goes directly to government,
citing concerns about human rights abuses and a new law clamping down on
opposition.
The World Bank, the European Union, the African Development Bank, Germany and
Norway also suspended direct aid to Malawi.
Mrs Banda said that Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, had also
agreed to look at unfreezing $350m which was pledged to revitalise Malawi’s
faltering energy sector.
John Kapito, from Malawi’s Human Rights Commission, said that without the
resumption of British aid, Mrs Banda’s administration would have a “very
hard climb” to restore the country’s economy.
“The past few years have been some of the worst Malawians can remember and we
are looking forward to international relations improving,” he said.
During her third day in office, Mrs Banda also announced an inquiry into the
suspicious death of a student activist and sacked a string of wa Mutharika
cronies including the Reserve Bank head who rejected the IMF
recommendations, the information minister who continued to insist the
president was alive a day after he had died, and the head of the national
broadcaster who had used the platform to campaign against her.
Posted in 
Tags: 
