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<\/a>Cahora Bassa Dam: Malawi hope<\/p><\/div>
\nThis is the first step to restore troubled relations between Malawi and Mozambique which soured during Prof. Bingu wa Mutharika\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe heads of state agreed in the Mozambican capital Maputo to revive a plan to supply electricity from Mozambique’s
\nCabora Bassa hydroelectric dam to its energy-starved neighbour,\u201d wrote AFP.<\/p>\n
AFP quotes Malawi\u2019s Foreign Minister Ephraim Chiume as saying, \u201cin Malawi we are short of power. This is having a negative impact on industry. Things have stalled but we hope we can have this project up and running soon. We are desperate for power.”<\/p>\n
First proposed in 2008, the project stalled because of cost concerns.<\/p>\n
Mutharika notoriously cut short a 2009 state visit amid a diplomatic spat when Malawian police mounted a cross-border raid into Mozambique.<\/p>\n
Since she took over upon the death of Mutharika, President Banda has gone to great lengths to rebuild relationships that collapsed under Mutharika’s authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n
“In Malawi with our new president, we are trying to open a new chapter,” said Chiume.<\/p>\n
“We want to ensure the bonds of friendship are enhanced … and misunderstandings unblocked.”<\/p>\n
A more recent spat turned around landlocked Malawi’s ambitions to export down the Zambezi river, much of which passes through Mozambican territory.<\/p>\n
Mutharika even inaugurated a river port for this in 2010 without an agreement, after Mozambique confiscated trial barges sent down the river.<\/p>\n
Built in 1974, Cabora Bassa only began turning a profit in 2010, three years after the building of a line to South Africa, which buys 65 percent of the dam’s output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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