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Malawi: Chakwera Challenges Developed Countries to Match Words With Action


Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has challenged world leaders to match their words of solidarity with action in helping people affected by Tropical Cyclone Freddy with relief assistance.

Chakwera made the sentiments during a virtual Democracy Summit, which United States (US) President Joe Biden hosted and attended by leaders of Ukraine, Niger, Panama and Denmark.

In his statement during the summit, the Malawi leader boldly spoke of moral duty, in light of the various miscarriages of justice that threaten democracy worldwide.

He told the panel to consider demonstrating the same degree of conviction that he had demonstrated, when he learned of the horrors of the Ukraine war, following a conversation with the Ukrainian leader, by asking his summit counterparts to offer support and relief to Malawi, in the wake of Cyclone Freddy, and its devastating, unprecedented effects.

Chakwera stated that any act that claims the number of lives and causes such unimaginable economic and social destruction, as has the war in Ukraine, simply cannot be addressed with mere words of solidarity, but rather with actualized camaraderie that continues to be exemplified, by the very summit being convened.

He further called for this spirit to be extended to other democracies like Malawi, in view of the fact that the climate change impact that the country continues to be subjected to, as witnessed in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy, is as a result of major industrial action by other nations.