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Chaos in Malawi

  1. Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2011 - 11:41
    Sam Banda Junior
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    There is chaos in Malawi following running battles between the law enforcers and the people following demonstrations on Wednesday.
    The police and people have been clashing following demonstrations which seeks to pump sense into President Bingu wa Mutharika to improve the Southern African country’s pathetic state.
    According to reports from the country, police have been deployed in the three major cities of the country namely Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu to quell the demonstrations which were planned by the civil society organisations.
    The people are on holiday following the demonstrations.
    A reporter on the ground in Blantyre said Wednesday morning that things were out of hand as the police were all over trying to stop the demonstrations and that the president was holding a public lecture at his residence.
    The reporter said some police houses in Lilongwe had been banned.
    On Tuesday President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters armed with panga knifes, went around the commercial city of Blantyre in vehicles threatening people not to dare go for demonstrations Wednesday.
    The demonstrations have been organised in the country following problems the country has been facing oflate among them fuel and forex shortages and some repressive laws which were currently passed in the Malawi Parliament.
    According to the reporter, the government got an injunction to stop the demonstrations but they did not succeed as it was lifted.
    The past days have seen the Malawi Law Society and opposition political parties announcing that they would take part in the demonstrations.
    On Tuesday people mobilised each other writing several messages on social network Facebook to turn up for the demonstrations and that they should all put up red attires.
    In a related development, the country’s Public Affairs Committee, has said president Mutharika must blame himself for the demonstrations because of the bad economic and political situation that faces the southern African nation.

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