Joyce Hilda Banda

President Joyce Banda has formed an inclusive government, appointing former enemies as well as allies in an effort to maintain a united front on economic problems...

Then the Foreign Minister, Peter Mutharika, along with senior members of the then governing Democratic People’s Party, decided to buy time to subvert Vice-President Joyce Banda’s succession by flying the body to South Africa, claiming that the dead President was receiving further treatment...

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...

On 7 April, Joyce Banda announced her predecessor’s demise...

Members of parliament defected en masse to it, much as they have now to Joyce Banda’s People’s Party...

After protests by a group of local merchants in Karoga, Malawi, President Joyce Banda's government introduced a ban on foreign traders in smaller, non-urban areas on 31 July...

A significant number of DPP politicians would prefer Vice-President Joyce Banda...

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 Joyce Banda, Mutharika has a Vice-President of his own choosing...

His choice of Foreign Minister Joyce Banda as running mate annoys DPP heavyweights (because she's a woman and another southerner)...

Labour Minister Ken Lipenga, Uladi Mussa (Agriculture), Joyce Banda (Gender and Community Services) and Davis Katsonga (Foreign Affairs) are significant losses for the UDF, though the combative Information Minister, Patricia Kaliati, doesn't fit easily into any party...