Africa-Press – Malawi. President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday October 4, 2022 arrived in the country from a working tour that took him to Kenya, United States of America and United Arab Emirates.
Speaking at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe Chakwera said he is optimistic that Malawi will benefit greatly from all the investments he wooed for many sectors.
While he was abroad Chakwera attended various meetings including transport, education, health, energy, agriculture and sports which in turn will help the country in actualize its dream of becoming self-reliant and inclusively wealthy nation within the next four decades.
Chakwera urged Malawians to collectively put all hands on deck and contribute in building Malawi. He concluded that he will provide comprehensive details of his tour in due course.
While in USA, Chakwera among other things attended United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), hold bilateral talks with the US government and engaged in several high-level meetings with heads of international development institutions and investors from across the globe.
After attending UNGA, the Malawi leader travelled to Washington DC for the signing of the $350 million compact for Malawi under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and hold bilateral talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Thereafter, he had audience with Managing Director of the World Bank Group, Axel van Trotsenburg, on the US$1.5 billion investment package for Malawi expected to roll out soon.
Chakwera also met with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Ms. Kristalina Georgieva. On his way back home, he made a stop- over in Abu Dhabi for bilateral talks with the president of United Arab Emirates.
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