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Editor suspended

    JOHANNESBURG

    According to MISA, Rankin Nyekanyeka was suspended after using a story on Malawi police to serve in Kosovo as the front page lead. This upset the paper’s editor-in-chief, Mike Kamwendo, who said the function at which Muluzi opened a factory in the commercial capital, Blantyre was more important than the police story.
    MISA condemned the action, saying it will muzzle the free flow of information and editorial independence. It added that the action will intimidate journalists at the paper from carrying out their duties freely.

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