President Mutharika seems to be buddying up to Zimbabwe's failing boss, which looks a bad move
Nkhotakota is a small town on the western shore of Lake Malawi, whose opposite coastline, in
Mozambique, is occasionally visible. The corrugated-iron roofed Cathedral of All
Saints is the centre of the Anglican Diocese of the Lake. In July 2005, Nicho...
President Bingu lacks patience for the stand-off with his parliamentary opponents
The death of First Lady Ethel Mutharika on 28 May and
the immediate proroguing of parliament led to an eerie calm: political
foes briefly spoke to each other again. On 15 June, the Supreme
Court revived political life by upholding a Constitutional Cour...
Ex-President Bakili Muluzi finally announced, to a large
rally of his United Democratic Front on 11 March, that he will
be its candidate for the 2009 presidential election. On 10 February,
in an interview with Africa Confidential
(Vol 48 No 4), he had...
In 1964 when the British colonialists left, Malawians
ate mostly home-grown maize and earned foreign exchange from tobacco.
Despite huge efforts and the doubling of the population, little
has changed. The problem is masked, except in exceptional drough...
In Britain for a month, former President Bakili Muluzi tells
Africa Confidential about his political plans
The latest bizarre political twist is the arrest of three senior
executives of the former governing party, the United Democratic
Front, whose chairman is ex-President Bakili Muluzi. Three
UDF officials - Secretary General Kennedy Makwangwala,
his depu...
Bingu wa Mutharika puts his case: the IMF approves, politics are turbulent and the anti-corruption trials hang fire
Opposition parties are cheering the Constitutional Court's
8 November ruling in favour of restrictions on MPs trying to change
their party allegiance after election.
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