{"id":1827,"date":"2011-05-11T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-05-11T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:48:40","slug":"gays-blamed-for-aid-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/gays-blamed-for-aid-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays blamed for aid woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Malawi\u2019s justice and constitutional affairs minister, George Chaponda (pictured) has blamed Malawian human rights groups that advocate for the rights of sexual minorities for the withdrawal of foreign aid from the country.<br \/>\n\u201cThe country is suffering because of the conduct of some leaders of the civil society,\u201d Chaponda said. \u201cThose people are not patriotic. Some donors have withdrawn their aid and everybody is suffering.\u201d<br \/>\nChaponda said the discovery that Danish groups had donated $700,000 to support the rights of sexual minorities in the country over three years showed that they were \u201cbeing used as agents from the government\u2019s enemies\u201d.<br \/>\nAn editorial comment on Malawian state radio called on Malawians to oppose such groups.<br \/>\n\u201cSomeone wants to sell us back to the colonialists \u2026 Let\u2019s fight against them before they succeed in handing us over to the colonialists,\u201d radio announcer Mzati Mkolokosa said.<br \/>\nDenmark and Germany have withdrawn aid from Malawi, but its poor record on GLBT rights was just one issue cited alongside poor governance and growing restrictions on freedom of the press and political expression in the southern African nation.<br \/>\nTags: Denmark, foreign aid, George Chaponda, Germany, Malawi<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1829\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s justice and constitutional affairs minister, George Chaponda (pictured) has blamed Malawian human rights groups that advocate for the rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}