{"id":214642,"date":"2022-01-26T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/us-embassy-applauds-president-chakweras-continued-fight-against-corruption?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:56:57","slug":"u-s-embassy-applauds-president-chakweras-continued-fight-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-embassy-applauds-president-chakweras-continued-fight-against-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Applauds President Chakwera&#8217;s Continued Fight Against Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Malawi\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c8e1372a80256f0\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Embassy of the United States of America welcomes the bold steps His Excellency President Lazarus Chakwera announced yesterday to further his administration&rsquo;s fight against corruption in Malawi.&nbsp;Corruption poses a significant threat to Malawi by wasting public resources and undermining democracy and the confidence of citizens.&nbsp;Charg&eacute; d&rsquo;Affaires Jeremey Neitzke stated, &ldquo;We are encouraged by President Chakwera&rsquo;s commitment to ensuring that Malawi&rsquo;s accountability institutions are apolitical and that those engaging in acts of corruption are brought to justice.&nbsp;The U.S. government supports efforts to prevent corruption by encouraging government transparency and access to information, as well as to prosecute corruption.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Malawi share democratic values and a belief that active citizens are the wellspring of democratic accountability. To safeguard development, democracy, and peace, we must make fighting corruption a priority.&nbsp;We concur with President Chakwera&rsquo;s call to the citizens of Malawi to play an active role in the ongoing fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Malawi.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Embassy of the United States of America welcomes the bold steps His Excellency President Lazarus Chakwera announced yesterday to further his administration&rsquo;s fight against corruption in Malawi.&nbsp;Corruption poses a significant threat to Malawi by wasting public resources and undermining democracy and the confidence of citizens.&nbsp;Charg&eacute; d&rsquo;Affaires Jeremey Neitzke stated, &ldquo;We are encouraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214643,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-214642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/u-s-embassy-applauds-president-chakweras-continued-fight-against-corruption.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214642","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=214642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}