The DPP expelled Banda in December 2010 along with the current Vice-President Khumbo Hastings Kachali for refusing to support President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother Peter Mutharika as its presidential candidate...
When she took over as President after the sudden death of Bingu wa Mutharika at least 100 members of parliament flocked to her side mostly from his DPP...
In order to help the transition in Malawi and ease the funeral arrangements for President Bingu wa Mutharika he donated 3 million litres of fuel to alleviate temporarily the country’s chronic fuel shortage (see Feature A long-distance run for Banda)...
Banda 62 founded the PP after the late President Bingu wa Mutharika (see Box Three days in April) had her expelled from the then governing DPP for not endorsing Peter Mutharika as his successor for the 2014 election...
The DPP is not well suited to opposition having fought only one election and been centred entirely on Bingu wa Mutharika in person...
President Bingu wa Mutharika's heart stopped during a meeting on 5 April with a member of parliament Agnes Penemulungu...
The sudden death of Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika closed the episode...
Joyce Banda accepting promotion from Vice-President to President on the death of Bingu wa Mutharika inaugurated her rule on 9 April by sacking the police chief Peter Mukhito...
Bingu wa Mutharika was Malawi’s third President after Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi...
The former Attorney General who served in President Bingu wa Mutharika’s first government has called for the President’s resignation or impeachment for ‘incompetence and violation of the constitution’...
’ President Bingu wa Mutharika remains determined not to devalue though the International Monetary Fund insists on it as a loan condition and local economists see it as inevitable...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 |
- MALAWI
Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma visited Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on 21-24 January en route to last month’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia...
