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Malawi - Kitwete bluffing! Fed up, Malawi suspends talks with Tanzania as border spat reaches 'next level'

Malawi - Kitwete bluffing! Fed up, Malawi suspends talks with Tanzania as border spat reaches 'next level'


[B]BLANTYRE[/B]--Malawi President Joyce Banda has announced that Malawi was suspending dialogue with its northern neighbour Tanzania over the border dispute because the issue has gone "to the next level".

"It's now a big issue," Banda told a news conference Tuesday on arrival in Lilongwe from New York where she made her maiden appearance at the United nations.

"We wrote a letter to Tanzania protesting while at the United Nations."

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