If Bingu manages to replace Chilumpha with Goodall Gondwe he will greatly weaken the UDF...
Personally he is more visionary and responsible than his immediate predecessor Bakili Muluzi and he has some loyal ministers of unquestionable ability such as Goodall Gondwe (Finance) and Hetherwick Ntaba (Health)...
The row has swelled into a crisis with the opposition determined both to block the budget for the year to come proposed by Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe and to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika...
In retaliation Muluzi seeks to impeach his successor and is cooperating with John Tembo who wants to reject Goodall Gondwe's budget...
• Goodall Gondwe respected Finance Minister formerly at International Monetary Fund and African Development Bank...
On the side of the increasingly popular President and semi-detached from the UDF are his new appointees: the State House Chief of Staff Ken Zikhale ('Let it be') Ng'oma; DPP Ishmael Wadi; Attorney General Ralph Kasambara; Minister of Economic Planning David Faiti; Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe; and the army and police chiefs Mark Chiziko and Mary Nangwale...
He gave the Finance Ministry to Goodall Gondwe after donors said they would not work with the former Finance Minister Friday Jumbe...
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...
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...
In Washington Bio Tchane succeeds Malawi's affably effective Goodall Gondwe: his challenges included a programme in newly democratic Nigeria and qualifying over 20 African states for Highly Indebted Poor Country debt relief...
He works closely with the Fund's outgoing Africa Director Goodall Gondwe who retires at the end of this year...
