Malawi President Joyce Banda and Vice-President Khumbo Kachale have taken a salary cut to support the government’s current austerity measures.
Mr Kachale announced the salary cut when he launched the Malawi Growth Development Strategy II and Economic Recovery Plan in Lilongwe.
He said: “The salary reduction by 30% is a demonstration by the leadership that it is supporting the austerity budget.”
Mr Kachale said Malawi was on the economic recovery and would combine the two programmes to speed up the process.
President Banda is currently attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where she took a delegation of 33 people, at the cost of about US$1 million.
Mr Kachale did not announce any reduction in other benefits or internal and external travel, which the new leadership is renowned for.
Malawi is currently experiencing a renewed fuel shortage due to inadequate forex.
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