Malawi: Mutharika Asks Reporters to Avoid Malawi 'Impoverished' Clichés

Sharma El Sheikh — Malawi President Peter Mutharika has echoed what Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa said that journalists should put an end to the "glorification" of poverty in the media.

Mutharika speaking a group of Malawian journalists in Sharma el Sheikh, Egypt on Thursday after signing the tripartite free trade area pact which enables free movement of goods and services between 26 different African countries said journalist should avoid writing "negative stories."

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