Malawi: Senior reporter fired

MISA reports that on May the 23rd 2007, Caroline Somanje, a senior reporter working with Blantyre Newspapers Limited was fired from her job for writing a story that implicated a Catholic priest and a bank manager. Somanje was summoned to a disciplinary hearing after she wrote a story on the front page of one of Blantyre Newspapers publications, The Daily Times, on May 14 which implicated the two as having an affair with a married woman.