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My Fellow Malawians, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great honour and privilege to address you all today. It is important that I must update you on developments that have taken place in our country since I last delivered the State of the Nation Address in May this year. In so doing, I will also outline the measures that Government has put in place to address some of the challenges that our country has been facing in the recent past.

My Fellow Malawians, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Accepting the presence of a problem is the first stage in solving any problem. Let us admit that our country has, over the past…

Malawi is to reprint thousands of presidential portraits to add “Doctor” to Joyce Banda’s name, the government said Friday, raising eyebrows amid a tough austerity drive.

South Korea’s Jeonju University last week awarded Banda an honorary doctorate for her no-nonsense reforms since taking office.

“We want to reflect the new title of the President as she will be addressed by Malawians and the whole world,” Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu said.

“The President is no longer a mere person.”

But the reprinting, which is rumored…