Malawi-Tanzania Border Dispute Escalates
Despite Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete's insistence on a peaceful resolution to the Lake Nyasa dispute, tension continues to rise as elders dispute Malawi's claim of ownership to the body of water.
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President Jakaya Kikwete and his Malawian counterpart Joyce Banda have said the two countries will never go to war with each other and called for patience as a joint committee ... Read more »
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As Tanzanian and Malawian politicians wrangle over Lake Malawi, or Lake Nyasa as it's known in Tanzania, residents around the lake continue with their daily lives. Read more »
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I am a Tanzanian from Tukuyu. Countrymen, we have a huge country, with many lakes, and the whole coastline of Indian Ocean front from which we are mining gas and oil. Malawi is too small a country, just like a potato, and it can go into Tanzania probably 10 times more, and it is landlocked; their economy is much poorer than ours in Tanzania. But yet we want to take from Malawi the little that it thrives on. Please countrymen, fellow Tanzanians, how greedy can we get, hey? What kind of people are we turning ourselves into, taking from a poor, tiny country Malawi the little it has? Let us think twice, please, my countrymen!!
Come on Tanzanian media, stop agitating for a confrontation. Malawi and Tanzania has a lot more to gain going into an increasing competitive future from economic and political collaborations than to expend energy into a border conflict. Be responsible. Malawian media has toned down on such reporting, please do the same. We have uncles and aunts, nephews and cousins across our borders. We informal traders, and intermarriages. Dont paint the false picture that a border incisively demarcates between people even to their social relations... lets be adults about this. Both our countries are too poor to be focusing on a conflict when we are already at war with poverty and so on.
pliz u tanzanias, can't u leav dis lake 4 us, u hav port wher u earn income and we malawians we don hav, now we want to fynd de source of income then u want to share.... Plz tileken.
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