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Malawi
Population: 15.7 mn.
GDP: 5.4 bn.
Debt: 0.6 bn.
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President Bingu wa Mutharika will try to address criticism of his record to secure more aid. As his pro-China stance and agricultural development will not provide sufficient cash, he will have to negotiate credits from the IMF. 

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  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Thank you for smoking

African producers could be penalised in talks this week on the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Punta del Este, Uruguay, on proposals to ban additives in tobacco (see AC Vol 51 No 20). By removing certain additives from cigarettes, the ne...

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Tobacco and the forex puzzle

Better prices alone for the tobacco crop will not address the worsening economic crisis

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Tobacco lobby meets in Swaziland

The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) summit in Swaziland at the end of August, which President Bingu wa Mutharika attended, pledged to support tobacco growers around the world in opposing changes to the United Nations World Health Organ...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Dog days in Lilongwe

When five dogs belonging to a white Zimbabwean couple, Dean and Helen van Schalhwal, savaged their 72-year-old watchman, Samson Chimdima, in Lilongwe last month, the incident escalated into a political furore drawing in President Bingu wa Mutharika.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

ALEKE KADONAPHANI BANDA 1939–2010

The death of Aleke Banda was announced on 9 April 2010. Although he was born in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), was educated in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and died in South Africa, he was a true son of Malawi (Nyasaland). His home district was Nkhata B...

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

The rise and rise of ethnic politics

The predominance of Lhomwe people in the government hierarchy raises doubts about Mutharika's nationalism

  • Vol 50 No 21
  •  23rd October 2009

Seeking power

The sudden death in South Africa on 20 September of Ishmael Chafukira has prompted the usual suspicions. The Malawi Congress Party member of parliament for Lilongwe North-West was the leader of a newly formed MCP faction, Task Force for Change, dedicated ...

  • Vol 50 No 18
  •  11th September 2009

Glass houses

Questions have arisen about the financing of President Bingu wa Mutharika's palace and mausoleum in Thyolo District. The contractor is Portugal's Mota-Engil (AC Vol 50 No 16), which has huge interests in road building, waterways and uranium-mining in Mala...

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

On top and in charge

The May elections have given President Mutharika political dominance for the term that is meant to be his last

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

A double win for Bingu

The overwhelming election victory for the President and his party revive troubling memories of Kamuzu Banda's system

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