DANISH ENVOY PUT MULUZI’S NOSE OUT OF JOINT

A MALAWIAN minister said on Wednesday the Danish ambassador to Malawi was recalled to his country in October because he was “rude” to President Bakili Muluzi. Finance minister Mathews Chikaonda said that Danish ambassador Orla Bakdal was recalled to Copenhagen for “mannerisms against the head of state.” “It had nothing to do with development aid,” Chikaonda said in the first official comment on Bakdal by the Malawi government. Bakdal last month denounced the abuse by some Malawians of Danish funds given to the southern African country on bilateral aid packages. A Danish embassy employee last month accused ambassador Bakdal of making defamatory remarks about Muluzi. -AFP