Although he died on 5 April the late President’s cabinet tried keep his death secret and blocked Banda’s accession hoping to sneak Foreign Minister Peter Mutharika into his brother’s post...
Mutharika had sacked Banda from the governing party in early 2011 when she refused to support Peter Mutharika’s nomination as the Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate...
Presidential brother Arthur Peter Mutharika a constitutional law Professor at Washington University St...
Peter Mutharika went on a European charm offensive after President Bingu Mutharika revoked the persona non grata order on Britain’s expelled High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet...
Vol 52 No 21 |
- MALAWI
- SUDAN
Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi...
Peter Mutharika who is being groomed for the presidency made little progress in a London meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague on 17 October in healing the rift over April’s expulsion of Britain’s High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet who’d described the President as ‘intolerant’...
Peter Mutharika also met United States and European Union officials without evident success...
The President wants to bequeath his office to his lacklustre brother Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika much as he and his predecessor inherited theirs...
The prospect of Peter Mutharika succeeding his brother as President seems remote...
Peter Mutharika as Minister of Education over the fight with the academics although without effect...
Peter Mutharika dismissed the accusations saying that only his brother has the power to ask him to step down...
The Vice-President Joyce Banda who was sacked from the governing Democratic Progressive Party for failing to back Peter Mutharika as the DPP’s next presidential candidate has decided to form the People’s Party...
In addition to gaining food security albeit at a high price it has helped to secure Mutharika’s political base which he intends to bequeath to his brother Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika for the elections of 2014...
Peter Mutharika reinforced claims about the Lhomwes' sudden rise to prominence...
Peter Mutharika moves away from his law students at the University of Washington in Saint Louis United States and into the Justice Ministry – and some say into a clear run to the presidency in 2014...
