MALAWI WORKING HARD TO MEND OVERSEAS FINANCIAL REPUTATION AFTER ‘CASHGATE’ SCANDAL
December 5th, 2013
MALAWI’S government is working furiously to win back international donor support suspended over a multi-million euro corruption scandal involving dozens of officials and ministers close to the country’s leader, Joyce Banda, southern Africa’s first female president. Bill Corcoran reports from Lilongwe.DESPITE this knock to the credibility of one of Africa’s poorest countries, Malawi seems determined to attract foreign investment – but it will have to demonstrate serious efforts to clean house first to woo public donors. In November, foreign donors, ...
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