Liana Chapota | |
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Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation of Malawi | |
Assumed office January 31, 2023 | |
President | Lazarus Chakwera |
Personal details | |
Born | Lilongwe |
Political party | Malawi Congress Party |
Liana Kakhobwe Chapota is a Malawian politician and educator. She became the Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation in Malawi
Chapota was born in the capital city of Lilongwe [1] and she was elected by the voters in the Lilongwe Msozi South constituency in 2019. She was in the Malawi Party. [2]
She was a member of the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus and in 2019 she and Lonnie Phiri came to Scotland for a week to meet Scottish parliamentarians. [3] Phiri chaired and she attended a fringe meeting on 15 October at the 2019 Scottish National Party's annual conference. [4]
She became the Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation in Malawi, [5] having been appointed by the president of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera. Her term began on January 31,2023. [6] [7] Access to safe water and sanitation is a challenge in Malawi but she was able to report several improvements. [8] Tree planting was in progress in the areas where rainwater is capture with a target in 2023 of creating 400,000 tree seedlings. [9]
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