Vol 54 No 21 | MALAWI Banda's fortunes turn 10th October 2013 The President is reaping political benefit from an improving economy but stands accused of planning underhand ways of winning the 2014 polls The political fortunes of President Joyce Banda have seen an unexpected turnaround. A win in the May 2014 parliamentary, presidential and local elections had looked highly unlikely...
Vol 54 No 14 | MALAWITANZANIA Digging in on the Lake 5th July 2013 Malawi will not give up an inch of its lake, sources close to President Joyce Banda say. At issue in the row with Tanzania is where the frontier on Lake Malawi/Lake Nyasa should li...
Vol 54 No 12 | MALAWI The hill Banda must climb 7th June 2013 If economic conditions don’t improve, the President’s prospects for next year’s elections look poor President Joyce Banda opened Parliament in May and announced a strong budget in an attempt to regain ground lost to an opposition that is already in election mode. While donors and...
Vol 54 No 7 | MALAWI Lilongwe’s treason trial 29th March 2013 A year after they tried to derail Joyce Banda’s accession to the presidency, the old political elite are in the dock President Joyce Banda's faces her toughest political test with the arrest on 11 March of eleven former top officials who have been linked to a treason plot. The arrests, which prom...
Vol 54 No 7 | MALAWI Rifts over lake 29th March 2013 Resolution of the dispute over the border between Malawi and Tanzania on Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa to Tanzanians) seems no nearer. The Africa Forum, an advisory body of former Africa...
Vol 54 No 4 | MALAWI Banda takes on her deputy 15th February 2013 The President is at loggerheads with her deputy just as she tries to strengthen her party in Parliament President Joyce Banda wants to build a parliamentary majority from defectors from the Democratic Progressive Party to her own People’s Party. She founded the PP after the late Pre...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | MALAWISOUTH KOREA Seoul says no to youth export 2nd July 2013 South Korea ends speculation on the matter and begins to investigate Yoon Choong-sup, the man behind the plan South Korea is adamant that it did not and will not authorise the arrival of some 100,000 young Malawian workers, as announced by President Joyce Banda and her People’s Party...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MALAWISOUTH KOREA Youth export palaver 31st May 2013 Parliamentarians were up in arms after hearing that up to 100,000 young Malawians could be soon on their way to work in South Korea’s factories and farms in an effort by government...
Vol 53 No 23 | MALAWITANZANIA Oil and gas prospects fuel lake row 16th November 2012 The two sides will return to the table to settle an old dispute Malawi and Tanzania will return to the negotiating table on 15-17 November to seek a diplomatic resolution to their dispute over the border in the lake that divides their two count...
Vol 53 No 13 | MALAWI The honeymoon’s over 22nd June 2012 If she lost her majority in Parliament, President Banda would lose control of her budget and the IMF programme, too Acclaimed at home and abroad as a breath of fresh air when she took office on 7 April, President Joyce Banda is being severely put to the test. The President faces scheming opponen...
