{"id":8015,"date":"2012-03-24T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T09:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2012-03-24T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T09:25:41","slug":"350m-in-us-good-governance-aid-halted-for-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/350m-in-us-good-governance-aid-halted-for-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"$350M in US good governance aid halted for Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nl_eng_good_governance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nl_eng_good_governance.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nl_eng_good_governance\" width=\"167\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8018\" \/><\/a>U.S. aid agency that rewards good governance has suspended $350 million worth of assistance to Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The Millennium Challenge Corp. says the investment would have provided almost $2 billion in net income for Malawi&#8217;s predominately impoverished people. But it says Malawi&#8217;s government hasn&#8217;t allowed citizens to assemble and speak freely.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accuse Malawi&#8217;s President Bingu wa Mutharika of authoritarianism and human rights abuses. Police killed 19 people last year when demonstrations degenerated into looting.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also criticized Malawi for inviting Sudan&#8217;s President Omar al-Bashir to a trade summit despite an international warrant for his arrest for alleged crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has approved $354.8 million in aid to Zambia. It praised Zambia&#8217;s commitment to democratic governance, rule of law and free and fair elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. aid agency that rewards good governance has suspended $350 million worth of assistance to Malawi. The Millennium Challenge Corp. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[300,1872,258,443],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poverty","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-good-governance","tag-malawi","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/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=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}