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Malawi

Malawi

Population: 23.38m
GDP: $10.84bn
Debt: 74.9% of GDP (2024)

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Displaying 6 results from 2019 (out of 177 total).

No let-up in post-election war

The opposition leaders' campaign to annul the May elections depends on getting more angry people on the streets

Three months after the highly contested and narrowly won elections, politicians, civil society and even religious leaders are divided between pro-opposition and pro-government factions. The issue is unlikely...


Chaos helps Mutharika

Malawi's defeated oppositionists are taking different attitudes to May's disputed presidential polls, and that appears to be playing into newly re-elected President Peter Mutharika's hands.


Mutharika’s narrow win

The final result had to be decided in court, so narrow was the victory margin and so mired in accusations of rigging

After a bitter, though largely policy-free, campaign in which the main candidates jockeyed for ethnically advantageous alliances while flinging accusations at each other, the High Court finally awarded...


Campaign plumbs the depths

The war of words between politicians is becoming more and more frenzied as polling day nears with no obvious favourite

The result of the 21 May general election is now anybody's guess, as President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic People's Party (DPP) and his main rival Lazarus Chakwera,...


Fighting withdrawal

Former President Joyce Banda has withdrawn from the presidential race, and she may have effectively taken President Peter Mutharika out of the contest too. Mutharika's nemesis, Vice-President Saulos...


War of the running mates

Politicians and parties are in a frenzy of alliance-hunting and opportunity-seeking as the general election looms

President Peter Mutharika has snubbed his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) political gurus and picked a political novice, Everton Chimulirenji, as his running mate for the vice-presidency. The decision...


Displaying 6 results from 2019 (out of 177 total).