Malawi: First Lady sues over shopping story

Malawi’s First Lady, Ethel Mutharika, has taken The Nation Newspaper to court over a story she went on a shopping spree in Scotland while her husband was negotiating for aid to help the starving in his country, writes Samuel Makaka on www.journalism.co.za in a story published on December 22. The Nation newspaper, one of the biggest in the country, repeated claims in the Daily Record of Scotland that she was seen shopping in expensive stores in Edinburgh during an official visit.