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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 48 No 4
  •  16th February 2007

Muluzi on the record

In Britain for a month, former President Bakili Muluzi tells Africa Confidential about his political plans

  • Vol 48 No 2
  •  19th January 2007

Who said what to whom?

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 deputy H...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

The President speaks

Bingu wa Mutharika puts his case: the IMF approves, politics are turbulent and the anti-corruption trials hang fire

  • Vol 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

Carpet crossing

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.

  • Vol 47 No 22
  •  3rd November 2006

Madonna madness

Following pop queen Madonna Louisa Ciccone's tearful defence of her adoption of Malawi-born orphan David Banda on America's Oprah Winfrey TV chatshow in October, some Malawi officials expressed disquiet at what they perceived as her high-handed approach: ...

  • Vol 47 No 16
  •  4th August 2006

Undercurrent

Blantyre is reeling from reports of the arrest of former President Bakili Muluzi on corruption charges on 27 July. Within hours, Muluzi was released on unconditional bail; a day later, all the charges were dropped.

  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 2006

Unhappy returns

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

  • Vol 47 No 10
  •  12th May 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
  •  14th April 2006

New politics at last

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

  • Vol 47 No 8
  •  14th April 2006

Old contenders, new hopefuls

Who's who in the parties?

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