Malawi Covid fund review finds $4.7m missing

A review into Covid spending in Malawi has found that around $4.7m (£3.7m) can't be represented from $21m put away to manage the second period of the pandemic.

This is on top of $881m from the principal stage that a 2020 review showed had been spent sporadically or was not represented.

After the main review, President Lazarus Chakwera vowed to get serious about the guilty parties and a few authorities were prosecuted, however none of the cases have yet finished up.

The most recent examination - a 66-page report by the country's evaluator general - records the anomalies, which incorporate undelivered clinical supplies, remittances paid without participation sheets and fuel procured without true documentation.

It has been introduced to the pastor of money for activity.

A few non-administrative associations (NGOs) say this second confession shows that public frameworks for overseeing assets are broken, with no political will to consider individuals responsible.

"We lost numerous kinsmen and ladies since reserves that might have been utilized to purchase fundamental gear and fundamental medications were manhandled; unfortunately we don't have an administration that is showing sufficient worry to change things," said Sylvester Namiwa, who heads the Center for Democracy and Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI).