Malawi\’s Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET)’s Country coordinator, Victor Mhone, on Monday expressed concern over the government\’s decision to partially lift a ban on meat in southern Malawi’s Shire River valley where a foot and mouth outbreak has affected a small number of animals.
Mhone told journalists in Lilongwe that the ban was lifted at a time when government had no full information on the extent of the outbreak.
"The partial lift on the ban would set a bad precedence to farmers as well as traders. We need a total ban because the disease is costly and can have a negative impact on the country’s economy," he added.
A Malawi Veterinary Association (MVA) official, Grey Matita, said a recent diagnosis results by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Laboratory has confirmed that there was an outbreak of the disease in the country, especially in the valley.
\"Government should reinstate the ban and a full vaccination of animals should be effected, otherwise the country might lose animals as well as outside market,\" he said.
He said other countries could stop trading with Malawi and opt for other disease-free trade zones.
The government should quickly come in and spend within its resources to effectively control the disease, he added.
Monday, 3 November 2008
MCP re-elects Tembo as 2009 presidential candidate
The country’s oldest political organisation, the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has re-elected party president John Tembo to lead it to the 19 May 2009 presidential and parliamentary elections in the country, APA learnt here Monday.
The former ruling and founding party of the Malawi nation, held a weekend convention in the capital Lilongwe where Tembo’s name got the delegates’ approval to be the party’s flag bearer in the forthcoming polls.
The veteran politician, accepting the nomination, called on his supporters to unite behind him during the elections if they want the party to return to power after it lost grip of the country in 1994 following 31 years of uninterrupted iron-hand rule.
"We all would like our party to be in the next government. And this can only happen if there is unity, obedience and discipline in the party," he said.
Tembo, a much feared politician during the single party rule of the late President Kamuzu Banda, vehemently opposed the reintroduction of multiparty politics in Malawi in the early 1990’s, forcing the country to hold a referendum in 1992 to determine if Malawians preferred to dispose of the single Malawi Congress party rule.
To Tembo’s dismay, Malawians overwhelmingly opted for multiparty democracy in the referendum results.
The former ruling and founding party of the Malawi nation, held a weekend convention in the capital Lilongwe where Tembo’s name got the delegates’ approval to be the party’s flag bearer in the forthcoming polls.
The veteran politician, accepting the nomination, called on his supporters to unite behind him during the elections if they want the party to return to power after it lost grip of the country in 1994 following 31 years of uninterrupted iron-hand rule.
"We all would like our party to be in the next government. And this can only happen if there is unity, obedience and discipline in the party," he said.
Tembo, a much feared politician during the single party rule of the late President Kamuzu Banda, vehemently opposed the reintroduction of multiparty politics in Malawi in the early 1990’s, forcing the country to hold a referendum in 1992 to determine if Malawians preferred to dispose of the single Malawi Congress party rule.
To Tembo’s dismay, Malawians overwhelmingly opted for multiparty democracy in the referendum results.
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