Malawi President Under Fire for Giving Money to Journalists

Malawi President Peter Mutharika is under fire for giving envelopes containing $125 to more than 80 media people at a dinner he hosted last month in Blantyre. The editor of the privately owned Times Television said reporters were told the envelopes contained the president’s plans for the media - which has been critical of the government’s economic performance. In his column published in Malawi’s Sunday Times newspaper, editor Grecian Tukula said he was not sure why the money was given to...

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