Vol 41 No 22 | MALAWI In the running 10th November 2000 The ruling United Democratic Front is struggling to pick its presidential candidate for 2004 and its continuity camp wants a third term for Bakili Muluzi, which would mean changing...
Vol 41 No 19 | MALAWI Naming names 29th September 2000 President Bakili Muluzi pleads for cancellation of Malawi's US$2.5 billion international debt. Meanwhile Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has described the embezzlement of mi...
Vol 41 No 14 | MALAWI Cautious in Malawi 7th July 2000 Good land is scarce in Malawi and the best of it is occupied by settlers (often of South African origin) who produce the grain and the exports of tea and tobacco that keep the stru...
Vol 40 No 13 | MALAWI Close shave 25th June 1999 After narrowly winning a second term, President Muluzi faces tough opponents Close-run and bad-tempered, Malawi's 15 June elections have sparked off several street confrontations and plenty of litigation. However, President Bakili Muluzi looks set to ride t...
Vol 40 No 11 | MALAWI Muluzi's democracy test 28th May 1999 Five years after the end of Banda's dicatorship, politics is at a crossroads Malawi's second multi-party elections are set to be a close-run thing. President Bakili Muluzi's ruling United Democratic Front is neck and neck with the opposition alliance of Gw...
Vol 37 No 15 | MALAWI We split, they split 19th July 1996 President Muluzi's coalition has broken up and so have the rival parties Car crashes, corruption and conspiracies: President Bakili Muluzi's brave new Malawi looks too much like Kamuzu Hastings Banda's old one. Conspiracy theorists rarely allow politici...
