{"id":10495,"date":"2012-05-04T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/malawi-tells-sudans-bashir-to-stay-away-from-summit\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:08","slug":"malawi-tells-sudans-bashir-to-stay-away-from-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/malawi-tells-sudans-bashir-to-stay-away-from-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi tells Sudan&#8217;s Bashir to stay away from summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* President asks African Union to stop Bashir attending<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sudan leader wanted by international court<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malawi seeks to secure overseas aid<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mabvuto Banda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LILONGWE, May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Malawi President Joyce Banda<br \/>\nsaid on Friday she had asked the African Union to prevent<br \/>\nSudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by the<br \/>\nInternational Criminal Court on genocide charges &#8211; from<br \/>\nattending a summit in her country.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Banda is trying to restore a flow of overseas aid cut under<br \/>\nher predecessor&#8217;s rule, leaving a gaping hole in a budget that<br \/>\nrelies on overseas assistance for about 40 percent of its funds.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bashir visited Malawi last year when President Bingu wa<br \/>\nMutharika was in power, which sparked international criticism<br \/>\nthat Malawi was not living up to its international court<br \/>\nmembership obligations to honour an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Banda, who became president last month, said she had asked<br \/>\nthe African Union not to invite Bashir to the African heads of<br \/>\nstate summit to be hosted by the impoverished southern African<br \/>\nnation in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have written them because of the economic implications<br \/>\nthis may have on Malawi,&#8221; she told a news conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* President asks African Union to stop Bashir attending * Sudan leader wanted by international court * Malawi seeks to secure overseas aid By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE, May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Malawi President Joyce Banda said on Friday she had asked the African Union to prevent Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}