Samsung donates cameras to Malawi electoral body

The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Anastasia Msosa announced on Monday that her body had received a donation of over 700 state-of-the-art digital cameras from Samsung, the South Korean electronic international giant, to use in its exercise to registers voters for the 19 May 2009 presidential and parliamentary polls.

Speaking to journalists in the commercial city of Blantyre, she said the cameras had come at the right time when the body was in greater need for the equipment.

"The cameras will assist in the on-going voter registration exercise which was temporarily suspended due to limited equipment, including cameras," she said, adding that the cameras have already been distributed to centres where the exercise was suspended and would resume this week.

The body suspended the voter registration exercise last week in some areas due to shortage of cameras, whose photographs are pasted on voters’ registration cards.