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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Government says President Lazarus Chakwera will not attend the African Union (AU) summit which will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from February 18 to 19, 2023. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement today that Chakwera will skip the summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Chakwera will not attend the summit due to other equally important national commitments during the same period, including the Cabinet\u2019s ongoing preparations for the Budget Meeting of Parliament,\u201d reads part of the statement.<\/p>\n

Chakwera has since delegated Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nancy Tembo, to represent him at the summit. In July last year, Chakwera also cancelled plans to attend the meeting for AU meeting for Heads of Regional Economic Communities.<\/p>\n

However, he attended the last AU summit in February 2022. The Malawi leader who is usually criticized for undertaking numerous foreign trips is yet to travel this year.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Government says President Lazarus Chakwera will not attend the African Union (AU) summit which will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from February 18 to 19, 2023. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement today that Chakwera will skip the summit. \u201cPresident Chakwera will not attend the summit due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,481,306,234],"class_list":["post-43655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-african-union","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nChakwera will not attend African Union Summit - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Government says President Lazarus Chakwera will not attend the African Union (AU) summit which will take place in Addis ...\" \/>\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\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera will not attend African Union Summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government says President Lazarus Chakwera will not attend the African Union (AU) summit which will take place in Addis ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\" \/>\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=\"2023-03-28T22:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-28T22:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1680024765.83.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera will not attend African Union Summit\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-28T22:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-28T22:25:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1680024765.83.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"african union\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-will-not-attend-african-union-summit\",\"name\":\"Chakwera will not attend African Union Summit - 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