Germany promises more aid to Malawi

  1. Posted on Friday 3 September 2010 - 12:30
    Mtheto Lungu
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    Mtheto Lungu, AfricaNews reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi
    German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has promised her country will provide Malawi with more aid.
    Angela Merkel
    A report in the German Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) said she told visiting President Bingu wa Mutharika: “We want to help Malawi advance in the fight on poverty and reaching the Millennium Development Goals.”

    Mutharika, who also visited Port Hamburg, some 200km North of Berlin on his arrival, expressed there was a lot to learn and benefit from relations with one of the European Union's (EU) major economic player.

    Mutharika and his entourage had an opportunity to appreciate what can be applied to the development of the Nsanje World Inland Port, which seek to shorten the trade route to the landlocked Malawi and the rest of the central and southern African countries including Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Zambia, among many others.

    Merkel said there was “great potential” to cooperate in public-private partnerships, particularly in the renewable energy sector. The visit will also carter for meetings with potential investors in Frankfurt this Friday.

    “There are a lot of investment opportunities in the transport sector…in energy and in the health sector,” President Mutharika is quoted.

    The leaders also spoke about the upcoming summit between the EU and the African Union (AU). Priorities included conflict resolution, Islamist terrorism and migration, Merkel said.

    Germany and Malawi relationship dates as far back as 1964 but it was in 1981 when the first state visit was made by the former president, late Dr Kamuzu Banda who visited the then West Germany and it is only now that Malawi President will visit a united Germany where there is no West or East.

    Chancellor Merkel is said to have played a crucial role for Malawi to get a raise in financial support from the European Union from 35 million Euros to 65 million Euros per year.

    Merkel was also asked by Mutharika, also AU chairperson, to visit Malawi at any time she wished.

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