General News of Tuesday, 26 March 2019Source: asempanews.comYou care about strangers than your own – Ras Mubarak to governmentMember of Parliament for Kumbungu Constituency, Ras MubarakA Ghanaian opposition MP, Ras Mubarak, has criticized his country’s government for offering a hand of assistance to Cyclone Idai victims in faraway Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi while ignoring scores of survivors and families of two ghastly accidents in Ghana which killed close to 70 people. On Saturday, there was a mass burial of about 40 of them and there was no single government official or minister of state at the burial,” Mr Mubarak told Ekow Annan. After Idai hit the three southern African countries, Mr Akufo-Addo sent messages of condolence to the peoples of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique following the devastation. Mr Akufo-Addo made this known in three personalized letters, dated Wednesday, 20 March 2019, to President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, President Emerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, and President Peter Mutharika of Malawi. He continued, “You can be assured of the solidarity of the Ghanaian people and its government in these difficult times.

Source: GhanaWeb March 26, 2019 14:48 UTC