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Malawi Village

The situation in Malawi continues to be tense as the protest against the president’s economic plans and the way his government rules the country has resulted in the death of 18 anti-governmental protestors.
The protest organizers gave president Bingu wa Mutharika until August 16 to sit at the negotiation table and decide along with them what is there to be done to end the situation created by the country’s financial incapacity to buy food and fuel, because of corruption, which made the international agencies close their helping business temporarily, and as a result of the devaluation of the national currency.
The 16-million-people southeastern country is one of the poorest nations on the face of the earth and the population is one of the less acquainted to the modern technologies, and the Western way of life, living mostly in rural communities, where even cell phones are just making their entry now, let alone internet and other commodities.
A very important factor though remains the Roman Catholic Church, whose word carries a lot of weight in this Christian country, and who can persuade both people and the presidency to listen to reason and find a way to compromise.
Bishop Joseph Zuza, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Malawi, issued a statement by which he was asking the president of the country to listen carefully to the grievances of the people.
Mutharika, who fancies himself as a “economist-in-chief” of the country, does not seem to be impressed with the ultimatum of the protesters but it is said that he may take the church seriously given the force church has in this country to influence the vote, and the fact that elections are scheduled for 2014.

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Church played a key role in overthrowing in the 1990s the dictator Hastings Banda, who ruled the country since independence in 1964.
Muthadika’s popularity dropped in the cities, too, where people queue in order to buy the limited amounts of fuel left.

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