{"id":25841,"date":"2022-07-03T21:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike"},"modified":"2022-07-03T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:26:18","slug":"cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike","title":{"rendered":"CDEDI against \u201cinsensitive\u201d Malawi fuel hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The decision by the country\u2019s energy regulator MERA has angered humanitarian organisation Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) saying will worsen the already poor living standards of the vulnerable Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>The hard to be justified decision by MERA has come after Petroleum Importers Limited has started transporting fuel through railway corridor whereby the prices were expected to drop.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement issued by CDEDI, the organisation expresses dismay to the midnight fuel price increase following, among other prevailing factors, the recent 25 percent devaluation of the Malawi Kwacha.<\/p>\n<p>CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa says that the fuel price hike is unacceptable, insensitive and an outright attempt to squeeze lives out of millions of poor and ultra-poor Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>Namiwa feels the move is just among other government\u2019s endeavours in pleasing International Monetary Fund (IMF), thereby conveniently crucifying millions of vulnerable and marginalized voters who are already struggling to make ends meet due to the ever skyrocketing cost of living, mirrored through the increase in prices of basic needs such as maize, cooking oil, water, electricity, sugar and bread, just to mention a few.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoincidentally, this is coming exactly two years of President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s regime, and the voters\u2019 memories are still fresh that he promised to resign should he fail to fix the economy within two years of his tenure. This is probably the best time for the President to honour his promise,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The calls are coming in the absence of tangible measures to cushion the marginalized and vulnerable Malawians who are in majority. \u201cThe austerity talk remains a mockery on the agony of the people. CDEDI is monitoring the situation and will soon issue a way forward as things continue to unfold,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consumers Association of Malawi Executive Director John Kapito has also expressed dissatisfaction with the move taken by MERA saying has detrimental effects on the lives of people as well as the economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24 Malawians woke up with the news that petrol pump prices have been hiked by 44.92 percent from MK1, 380 to MK1, 999 and diesel from MK1, 470 to MK1, 920 representing an increase of 30.61 percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The decision by the country\u2019s energy regulator MERA has angered humanitarian organisation Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) saying will worsen the already poor living standards of the vulnerable Malawians. The hard to be justified decision by MERA has come after Petroleum Importers Limited has started transporting fuel through railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-25841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CDEDI against \u201cinsensitive\u201d Malawi fuel hike - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The decision by the country\u2019s energy regulator MERA has angered humanitarian organisation Centre for Democracy and Econo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDEDI against \u201cinsensitive\u201d Malawi fuel hike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The decision by the country\u2019s energy regulator MERA has angered humanitarian organisation Centre for Democracy and Econo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T21:06:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T21:26:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_22-62c209617edfa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"CDEDI against \u201cinsensitive\u201d Malawi fuel hike\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-03T21:06:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-03T21:26:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\"},\"wordCount\":372,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_22-62c209617edfa.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-against-insensitive-malawi-fuel-hike\",\"name\":\"CDEDI against \u201cinsensitive\u201d Malawi fuel hike - 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