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Article: VOA NEWS: MALAWIAN VICE PRESIDENT GIVES ULTIMATUM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 25, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Peter Clottey
In Malawi, Vice President Cassim Chilupmha was stripped of privileges when it was rumored he had resigned. Now Chilupmha is asking the government to restore them by next Thursday; if it does not, he says he will sue for contempt of court. Fahad Assani, the vice president's lawyer, says he has written to the chief secretary, the president and the cabinet secretary concerning the request. He said the vice president instructed him to express his concern and to tell them there is only one vice-president in Malawi.
Assani says Chilumpha is protesting an indication in the latest Secret Telephone Directory that the office of the ...