Vol 45 No 9 | MALAWI Bingu the favourite 30th April 2004 Opposition splits, not political merit, will help the UDF win the presidency –again By most measures, the governing United Democratic Front (UDF)have little hope of winning the national elections on 18 May. President Bakili Muluzi's UDF government has presided ove...
Vol 45 No 2 | MALAWI Spot the difference 23rd January 2004 President Muluzi's legacy looks sadly like the late Dr Hastings Banda's Facing polls in May, President Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) is accused of the same offences as its autocratic predecessor under the late Kamuzu Hastings Banda (AC ...
Vol 44 No 14 | MALAWIUNITED STATES Kidnapped I 11th July 2003 Churches, the governing United Democratic Front, the United States' Save the Children Fund and the Muslim Association of Malawi were early casualties of Malawi's 'war on terrorism'...
Vol 44 No 9 | MALAWI Getting rid of Muluzi 2nd May 2003 The President can't stand for reelection but fears prosecution if he doesn't hold onto power Nine years of multi-party politics after 30 years of dictatorship have tested the country's young democratic institutions. Two years of famine, a devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic and ...
Vol 42 No 7 | MALAWI Brown bounces back 6th April 2001 Corruption, a coup plot, a third term and a new opposition There's nothing like a coup plot to distract attention from political troubles. It is widely believed in Blantyre that last week's alleged putsch was not a coup plot at all. Revela...
Vol 42 No 1 | MALAWI Third term lucky 12th January 2001 Malawi's constitution limits a president to two five-year terms. President Bakili Muluzi wants a third (AC Vol 41 No 22). His main opponent, Brown Mpinganjira, ex-Minister of Educa...
Vol 41 No 22 | MALAWI Those fatal cars 10th November 2000 Scandals are complicating the choice of a presidential candidate The Mercs to Malawi affair - the purchase of 39 top-notch Mercedes-Benz limousines by President Bakili Muluzi's aid-dependent government - turned discontent into crisis. This has h...
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...