Malawi’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, declared a 14-day national mourning period on Thursday.
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“The temptation to abstain from COP this year was great,” President Lazarus Chakwera said, referring to the talks by their U.N. acronym, "because of the great and unprecedented economic hardships your citizens are suffering in your own nation,” he said.
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