President Bingu wa Mutharika’s letter of 28 October complained to former President Bakili Muluzi of ‘diabolical’ stories circulated by him and his United Democratic Front (UDF) cohorts alleging a whole list of physical and moral weaknesses in the President that include prostate cancer superstition drunkenness and embezzlement...
In Malawi the rows about aid are sharpest voiced by President Bingu wa Mutharika (AC Vol 49 No 17)...
The country's political crisis is intensifying and threatening government finances thanks to the confrontational style of President Bingu wa Mutharika and his eager lieutenants...
In attendance were South African President Thabo Mbeki Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba Malawi’s Bingu wa Mutharika Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete Swaziland’s King Mswati and Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili...
President Bingu wa Mutharika boasts that he is a disciple of founding President Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
Vol 49 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- ANALYSIS
The opposition complains that the government sold large quantities of it to Zimbabwe earlier in the year (President Bingu wa Mutharika is a great admirer of President Robert Mugabe) and has now banned maize exports but not to Zimbabwe for fear that it will not be able to feed the million people whose crops have this year been ruined by flooding...
Vol 49 No 8 |
- MALAWI
- ECONOMY
were produced allowing President Bingu wa Mutharika's government to donate 10 000 tn...
The presidential hopefuls to be proposed and acclaimed are usually the bosses who chair the committees: incumbent President Bingu wa Mutharika in the Democratic People's Party (DPP); the late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda's party baron John Tembo in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP); Muluzi in the UDF...
Perhaps the most uncritical Mugabe loyalist is Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika who has been extolling the virtues of his neighbour despite his country's still chronic dependence on Western aid...
The all-important Malawi Electoral Commission which will supervise the polls has at last been appointed by President Bingu wa Mutharika who characteristically failed to consult the political parties on its membership...
