Malawi

• Vol 47 No 14
• 07/07/2006

Unhappy returns

President Mutharika is set for more opposition confrontation as two leaders come home

• Vol 47 No 10
• 12/05/2006

Bakili's bullets

The arrest on treason charges of Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha and two of his close associates - Yusuf Matumula, ex-Trustee of the Bakili Bullets football team, and United Democratic Front activist Rashid Nembo - in an operation by armed Blantyre police...

• Vol 47 No 8
• 14/04/2006

New politics at last

Parliament has reconvened with another set of politicians ready for a fresh start

• Vol 47 No 8
• 14/04/2006

Old contenders, new hopefuls

Who's who in the parties?

• Vol 47 No 5
• 03/03/2006

Bingu's gamble

Malawi's constitution does not empower presidents to sack vice-presidents, even those elected on the same ticket. Yet last month, President Bingu wa Mutharika told Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha to go. Attorney General Ralph Kasambara talks creativel...

• Vol 46 No 21
• 21/10/2005

Disaster

Famine threatens and an enfeebled government lacks the authority to act

• Vol 46 No 14
• 08/07/2005

Deadlock

Personal rivalries, not political differences, have tied the government in knots

• Vol 46 No 14
• 08/07/2005

Who's who in the struggle

• Vol 46 No 9
• 29/04/2005

Hunger and hullaballoo

Parliament's tumultuous, short April session was the first since President Bingu wa Mutharika bailed out of the United Democratic Front and the first since he launched the Democratic Progressive Party, in a familiar wave of colourful rallies, dancing w...

• Vol 46 No 4
• 18/02/2005

It's my party

By resigning from the United Democratic Front, which carried him to the presidency last year, President Bingu wa Mutharika has triggered political confusion (AC Vol 46 No 2). Politicians must now decide which is worse: the risk of missing out on jobs ...