Sunday, November 24, 2013

Tony Blair faces questions over Malawi scandal...

Tony Blair is facing questions over his role as adviser to the president of Malawi after the British government froze aid to the country amid a growing corruption scandal.

An official working in Malawi’s finance ministry was shot in the face and seriously wounded amid claims by his family he was about to expose widespread state corruption.

The assassination attempt and the web of corruption it simultaneously uncovered led to the arrests of several government officials, the sacking of the entire Malawian cabinet and the suspension of aid from the British government to the country. Millions of pounds are feared to have been stolen by officials.

The UK, through the Department for International Development (DfID), was due to spend £92 million of aid in Malawi next year, making it the biggest international donor. It has frozen £17 million of payments with “immediate effect”.

 Mr Blair and his charity the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) has been working closely with Joyce Banda, Malawi’s president, since August last year. Full story...

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