{"id":1291,"date":"2011-09-20T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/blantyre-civil-society-groups-demand\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:41:19","slug":"blantyre-civil-society-groups-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/blantyre-civil-society-groups-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"BLANTYRE: CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS DEMAND REFORMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">Malawi\u2019s civil society groups on Thursday announced nationwide vigils for next week to press the government to make greater reforms following deadly riots in July.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are just resuming our idea of holding nationwide, peaceful vigils on September 21,\u201d rights activist and vigil organiser Billy Mayaya told AFP.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">In July, 19 people were killed during two days of anti-government demonstrations organised by civic groups in three main cities of the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">The protests were fueled by anger over chronic fuel and foreign currency shortages and President Bingu wa Mutharika\u2019s failure to manage the economy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">Mutharika has since fired his entire cabinet and hired new ministers, in a bid to turn around his government\u2019s performance, and meeting one of the protesters\u2019 key demands.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">But the new cabinet includes his wife and his brother, seen as his potential successor.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">Last month the vigils \u201cto resist bad economic and democratic governance\u201d were postponed after the rights groups reached a deal with government, in talks mediated by United Nations representatives.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Source: Capital FM Radio, Nairobi<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s civil society groups on Thursday announced nationwide vigils for next week to press the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}