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January 29, 2021 Watipaso Mzungu – Nyasa Times 2 Comments
The Association of Returnees and Detainees has cancelled their planned vigil at the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) at the Capital Hill to force the government to pay them compensations for the atrocities suffered during the one-party regime.
Mtambo engages Malawi Returnees and detainees, proposed demos cancelled
The cancellation of the vigil follows a meeting the Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy PMtambo and his Principal Secretary, Erica Maganga, held with the leadership of the association on January 20, 2021.
The association’s chairperson, Rodger Mkandawire, and his publicity secretary, Alexander Msiska, confirmed the development in separate telephone interviews on Friday.
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Nudging people to vaccinate
“Vaccinating the world” (January 9th) touched on the dangers from people who refuse to take the covid-19 jab in countries such as France. This is no small piece of the puzzle. In tandem with supply and distribution, tackling people’s fears about the vaccines must be a priority for public-health officials.
We have seen this before. The reason it took decades to eliminate wild polio from Nigeria was that communities in the north of the country believed the vaccine was designed to harm, not help, them. Nigeria’s experience with polio has given it an advantage in overcoming vaccine hesitancy. It can be done. Most important, we listened and learned to understand people’s fears and scepticisms. We offered the vaccine free and trained an army of workers to knock on doors advocating for it. We packaged it with other public-health services people wanted,