04:16 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMalawi has reportedly ordered the UK’s High Commissioner to leave the country after he was quoted in a leaked cable as saying the president does not tolerate criticism.<\/p>\n
A British diplomat warned of “serious consequences” over Fergus Cochrane-Dyet’s expulsion, according to an internal memo seen by the BBC.<\/p>\n
Some 40% of Malawi’s budget comes from abroad; the UK is the largest donor.<\/p>\n
No Malawian officials were available to comment on the reported expulsion.<\/p>\n
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office could also not confirm that Mr Cochrane-Dyet had been ordered out of Malawi.<\/p>\n
But a spokesman said that Malawi’s charge d’ affaires had been summoned last week and told of the UK’s concern at reports of the decision to deport him.<\/p>\n
According to the diplomatic cable published by the local Weekend Nation newspaper last week, Mr Cochrane-Dyet described Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika as “becoming ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism”.<\/p>\n
He said local civil society activists were afraid after a campaign of threatening phone calls.<\/p>\n
“I am sorry to pass on the news that the Malawi Government have officially informed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office today [Tuesday] that Fergus is being declared persona non grata,” reads the memo signed by British High Commission Vice-Consul Lindsay McConaghy.<\/p>\n
In the memo, Foreign Affairs Minister Etta Banda was quoted as telling Mr Cochrane-Dyet that “Malawi has lost confidence in you”.<\/p>\n
Malawi government spokesman Vuwa Kaunda told the BBC’s Raphael Tenthani in Blantyre that the issue was “highly sensitive”.<\/p>\n
Ms McConaghy said no Malawian government representative would be invited to the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday.<\/p>\n
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an estimated 75% of the population living on less than $1 (60p) a day.<\/p>\n
Mr Cochrane-Dyet was quoted as saying that these would be the people who would suffer most if aid was cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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