Burying acidic diplomatic ties

The Nation

Burying acidic diplomatic ties

Today’s launch of the power interconnection project by President Lazarus Chakwera and his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi inevitably evokes bitter memories of how the relationship between the two countries sunk to a record low in 2011.Then, it was the late President Bingu wa Mutharika who was at the center of controversy. Wittingly or unwittingly, Bingu apparently ignored the fact that Mozambique shares the largest portion of its border with…