Vol 47 No 10 | MALAWI Bakili's bullets 12th May 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 8 | MALAWI New politics at last 14th April 2006 Parliament has reconvened with another set of politicians ready for a fresh start A new political order may emerge as parliament reassembles for a new four-week term. Amid last year's chaos, President Bingu wa Mutharika's nervous government suspended parliamentary sittings for...
Vol 47 No 5 | MALAWI Bingu's gamble 3rd March 2006 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...
Vol 46 No 21 | MALAWI Disaster 21st October 2005 Famine threatens and an enfeebled government lacks the authority to act President Bingu wa Mutharika's declaration of a national disaster because of the food shortages which threaten over half of Malawi's eleven million people may boost contributions to the...
Vol 46 No 14 | MALAWI Deadlock 8th July 2005 Personal rivalries, not political differences, have tied the government in knots The late Rodwell Munyenyembe has been feted as a martyr of democracy since, as parliamentary Speaker, he collapsed on 23 June while trying to calm a row between...
Vol 46 No 9 | MALAWI Hunger and hullaballoo 29th April 2005 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...
Vol 46 No 4 | MALAWI It's my party 18th February 2005 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)....
Vol 46 No 2 | MALAWI His own man 21st January 2005 The long-awaited showdown between President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his predecessor Bakili Muluzi is under way (AC Vol 45 No 24). Mutharika has told his predecessor to 'shut...