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Bakili Muluzi

Date of Birth: 17 March 1943


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Government versus party

When Bingu wa Mutharika won the presidential election in May 2004 nobody expected much change from the previous ten years of Bakili Muluzi's presidency...


Queuing for court

A long queue of cases waits to be heard in court cases concerning crimes allegedly committed during the decade of Bakili Muluzi's presidency when billions of kwacha leaked annually from government revenue...

People widely seen as having questions to answer include the former President current Vice-President and some of the UDF National Executive Committee (NEC): Bakili Muluzi: enormously wealthy Muluzi will probably escape prosecution at least for now...


New brooms

Returning from holiday in the United States and Britain at the beginning of August ex-President Bakili Muluzi launched a counter-attack against the reformers claiming the UDF's supremacy over the government and warning: 'No government can rule without a past...


Bingu's can of worms

The new cabinet named on 13 June contains factions that will pull President Bingu wa Mutharika in all directions: The economists led by Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe who was an economic adviser to ex-President Bakili Muluzi...


Newish start

The eight who keep their jobs suggest an economic focus: donor-friendly Goodall Gondwe ­ a former World Bank colleague of Bingu's and advisor to his predecessor Bakili Muluzi ­ as Finance Minister Chilumpha in charge of Statutory Corporations and Bingu controlling Civil Service and Defence...


Did they vote for this?

Mgode formed in protest when Aford joined the then President Bakili Muluzi's UDF government in 2003 has also let down its supporters...


Winners and losers

Winners Bingu wa Mutharika: from nobody to President in one year; overshadowed by predecessor Bakili Muluzi during campaign perhaps a puppet but critics are giving him a chance...

Bakili Muluzi: still widely believed to be in charge even without third presidential term he wanted; with lucrative business plans and influence over every political move he could even return to the presidency in 2009...


After Bakili, Bingu

Malawians seemed reluctant to elect new President Bingu wa Mutharika the hand-picked successor to Bakili Muluzi as candidate of the ruling United Democratic Front (AC Vol 45 No 9)...


Presidential prosecutions

Tens of thousands of mourners (including Malawian President Bakili Muluzi) looked on as Kaunda and Chiluba placed wreaths on the grave...


Bingu the favourite

President Bakili Muluzi's UDF government has presided over worsening poverty and corruption since it took over from President Kamuzu Hastings Banda's brutal dictatorship in 1994...


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