Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. Its a year since Lazarus Chakwera became president of malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. The preacher turned politician won power promising to create A Millionjobs and to clear the Rubble Of corruption. But a year on, the economy is being hit hard by the effects of covid. His government admits it has no idea how many jobs have been created, and hes been criticised for nepotism, including giving jobs to his family. Hes about to take on the presidency of the southern african development community, but can malawis president even honour the promises he made to his own country . Lazarus chakwera, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Now, lets start with the situation as regards covid, because there are currently 11,000 active cases reported in your country. Thereve been 1500 deaths, but that will be underreported. Whats your assessment of the situation at the moment . You know, it is possible that it is
Welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. Its a year since Lazarus Chakwera became president of malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. The preacher turned politician won power promising to create A Millionjobs and to clear the Rubble Of corruption. But a year on, the economy is being hit hard by the effects of covid. His government admits it has no idea how many jobs have been created, and hes been criticised for nepotism, including giving jobs to his family. Hes about to take on the presidency of the southern african development community, but can malawis president even honour the promises he made to his own country . Thank you very much. Now, lets start with the situation as regards covid, because there are currently 11,000 active cases reported in your country. Thereve been 1500 deaths, but that will be underreported. Whats your assessment of the situation at the moment . You know, it is possible that it is underreported, but we go by what we have officially. And if you lo
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85 percent of the country, but it shows moscow and military gains dont threaten russia or its central asian allies in the us President S and a warning to his russian counterpart after a series of cyber attack. Ah, well, he appears to be hurtling towards a deeper political crisis after the assassination of president of anomalies and senate has now nominated Joseph Lambert as a new interim president until new elections of health. But the senate is also backed Area Henry to replace cold joseph as the prime minister. There are growing security concerns and the government has now off the United States and the united nations to send troops to help stabilize the country, or speak to patty call hand. She joins us now from washington. D. C. Parties, weve been saying some really big off from hazy, not only of the u. S, but also the u. N. Exactly right. The haitians have asked the united nations isnt the peacekeepers. Theyve asked the u. S. Department of defense to send us troops that was able to