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Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live. VOA Newscasts Latest program. Turning to the post development agenda, the Malawi leader was pleased that Malawi had been among those selected for national consultations.

His country was on track to achieving just four of the eight Millennium Development Goals and thus would proceed to the post era with unfinished business.

Inadequate resources were among the reasons for its failure to have achieved all the Goals. Chaima-Banda has, however, said he would not resign from his post as presidential adviser until dismissed by President Chakwera.

It's the people who are calling upon the president to sack me, so I will wait for him to make a decision," he said. Kambala is the first sitting minister to be arrested in over 20 years and the second to lose his Cabinet post this year.

In a crackdown on corruption, President Chakwera fired his labor minister in April and arrested 19 government officials for fraudulent use of funds meant to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The leader of the southern African nation of about 18 million was elected last June on the pledge to stamp out corruption in the government. He hailed Malawi and Zambia as "examples of what democracy is about". Chakwera insisted that overall, "democracy is getting consolidated" on the continent, in spite of "erratic events", referring to the recent coups in Mali, Guinea and now Sudan.

He described such coups as being "not the African way". He regretted that such coups were back in fashion "in some parts" of the continent, but pointed to the recent elections in Zambia and in his country as examples of democratic progress. Our guest said he was optimistic for the forthcoming COP26 climate summit, despite warnings that it might not be successful.