Brazilian gospel singer Pedro Henrique died after he collapsed on stage during a performance Wednesday.
The 30-year-old was performing his song ‘Vai Ser Tão Lindo’ at a religious event that was being streamed online when he suddenly fell in front of his band inside a concert venue in the northeastern city of Feira de Santana.
Video footage of the incident showed Henrique engaging the crowd as he stood on the edge of the stage before he lost his balance and fell on his back.
Attendees immediately rushed over to help the singer while the crowd looked on in shock.
Henrique was taken to a nearby clinic, where he was confirmed dead.
Henrique’s record label, Todah Music, told Radio 93 that the singer had suffered a massive heart attack
President Dr Lazarus Chakwera says the resumption of direct budget support by the World Bank signifies the return of investor confidence in the government of Malawi, 10 years after the group suspended its direct budget support to Malawi.
Dr Chakwera said this today at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, where he presided over the signing of a US $137 million budgetary support agreement between World Bank and Malawi government, with US $80million set for immediate release.
He said the support will aid Malawi in its quest to recover from economic shocks which emanated from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, Cholera outbreak, drought experienced in some parts of Malawi, not forgetting effects of Tropical Storms Anna and Gombe, as well as COVID 19.
Chakwera with World Bank Country Director Belete
He added that the immediate release of US $80 million will provide the Reserve Bank of Malawi with the needed forex to boost import cover.
The Malawi leader said the continuous engagement between Malawi and the World Bank has now yielded fruits, and Malawi will continue working together with the World Bank as the country has put an extra gear towards economic recovery, through the capitalisation of agriculture, tourism and mining sectors ( ATM strategy).
Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Simplex Chithyola Banda said the signing of the agreement signifies the World Bank’s confidence and trust in the leadership of President Dr Lazarus Chakwera as well as reforms taken by Malawi government towards the country’s economic recovery and growth.
Chithyola Banda said Malawi will work tirelessly towards the country’s economic growth.
World Bank Country Director for Malawi Nathan Belete said Malawi won the budgetary support following necessary reforms which the country undertook to turn around it’s economy.
He said the World Bank remains committed to assisting Malawi through financial support and technical advice as the country moves out of the poverty trap and registers recovery and growth.
He said Malawi has great human resource and potential to attain it’s economic recovery and growth aspirations.
He announced that by the end of 2023, World Bank will have made new financial commitments totaling US $850, where US $240 million will go towards cyclone Freddy response and climate resilience, and will be approved next week.
The government through the ministry of gender, community development and social welfare says it is committed in the work against violation of children’s rights, but stresses that the work needs collaborative efforts.
According to Gender Minister,Jean Sendeza, the main problem that has been there for a long time is that different Non-Govermental organizations work in isolation without coordinating with others who are also fighting for the same goal.
She said this is not good because as a country,the elimination of the vice needs to hold hands and work together.
She was speaking during the 2023 commemoration of the world day of prayers for children which was held in Lilongwe.
“We need to show happiness, love as well as hope as we are praying for the good life for all the children here in Malawi. This is a great day for all of us as we are meditating on the relevance of having these children and that it is important to be praying for them. Each and every day we are witnessing cases of child abuse, my beloved fellow Malawians this is not our tradition we used to have in the past and we must refrain from these malpractice.
“Am calling upon all stakeholders that when we are implementing various projects aiming at eliminating child violations we should coordinate for the impact to be seen at large, as President Lazarus Chakwera urge us to unite when doing things,” she said.
Director of advocacy at World Vision international Charles Gwengwe said as one of the implementing partners in the fight against violation of children rights, World Vision international is committed to ensure that they are fulfilling their commitments in order for the children to gain what they are supposed to be given in all the projects they have lined up.
“Children need much support, you know this is a vulnerable group which needs special attention and we never know the one whom we are abusing today may turn out to be the next minister of gender, everything is possible, so we need to show love and compassion to these young ones at all cost,” Gwengwe said.
Masona Tembo Kaluluma, moderator of Nkhoma Synod also concurred with Gwengwe saying they are just fulfilling what God started in the old testament as he is showing compassion about children and that they will make sure that all commitments are being fulfilled to help children to grow with good manners.
World Vision international, UNICEF as well as the Nkhoma Synod of the C. C. A. P collaborated during this day of commemoration of the world day of prayers in order to disseminate information on issues to do with the violation of children’s rights.
The prayers were held under the theme: Faith leaders; let’s unite to protect children from all forms of violence.
Lumbadzi Police says it has put in place all the necessary measures to fight against crime during the festive season.
The station recently engaged different stakeholders to strategize on how to combat crime in the township and beyond as people celebrate Christmas and New year.
Micklina Mtanthiko Medi
Speaking during the community policing meeting, the station’s officer in-charge Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Micklina Mtanthiko Medi said community policing is crucial in the fight against crime especially during the festive season when the crime rate escalates.
She said: “My office will intensify both foot and vehicle patrols with community policing members in mounting snap roadblocks and deploy both uniformed and civilian officers on the ground.”
In his remarks, Station Executive Committee chairperson, Michael Phiri said the meeting will help bring sanity at the trading center and the sorrounding communities.
A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) diehard from Mvera area in Dowa district Rodgers Kamphangala, has called for all political parties in Malawi to go for factory setting so that they have fresh applications to the office of Director of Political Parties in Malawi.
Kamphngala suggests that almost all political parties in Malawi are swallowed by the main political parties MCP and DPP observing that corruption in government cannot end because these swallowed parties have no say in government only clapping hands at nonsense.
He says all political parties must align their objectives to match with vision 2063 observing that at the time of the formation of these existing political parties MCP, UDF and DPP there was no vision 2063 and as a result they are only promoting self-interests in government.
The MCP diehard observes with a great concern over the divisions that have rocked the DPP as evidenced with court injunctions against injunctions saying this is speaking for itself that democracy is under threat in Malawi and is being killed.
He says Article 10 of the DPP Constitution of 2018 is very clear that the President shall have power to assign a member of the National Governing Council (NGC) to any public or political office wondering where members that are being assigned other duties are obtaining court injunctions to stop the President from acting his powers.
Kamphangala says it is the wish of all Malawians to see to it that democracy is being sustained in Malawi but the way things are moving in the DPP is questionable that some other people have one agenda of killing the main opposition DPP through the courts.
He further observes that Chapter 4 of the Republican Constitution provides a clause for freedom of association meaning that people have all the rights reserved to join a political party of their choice or else forming their parties wondering why some other people are still clinging to remain in the DPP through court injunctions as if at the time of their entry they paid membership fee.
“DPP has a large following in Malawi, this is the time for them to form their own political party or join the MCP other than working tirelessly to kill the hard-won democracy for the DPP to end like curtains on the wall,” says Kamphangala.
