Malawi: President Chakwera Calls On Journalists to Tell the Malawi Story

Addressing the media at Kamuzu Palace during the world press freedom day the Malawi leader said it is good for the country to focus on rebuilding the country's national agenda.

The president urged the media to take an active role in telling inspiring stories of how Malawi has stood up to the giant monster of climate change and avoid portraying Malawi as a nation without any means. The President also said we should not think there is no nation on earth that is not facing climate impacts and we would naive to think we are the only ones the rest should feel sorry for and that it is only the inspiring stories that we continue to defend ourselves bravery against this monster that is bigger and more ferocious than any other challenge we face.

"I know that in the past some year some misguided law enforcement agents have tried to damage Malawi's international reputation as a place where the press is free to publish what it likes, and some of you have fallen for the lie that such misguided police abuses are meted out with orders from here, but I can assure you that I have never once issued orders to the police to arrest anyone, much less a journalist, because such an order would be a violation of the very constitution I swore...

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