Bingu wa Mutharika was Malawi’s third President after Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi...
Encouraged and mentored by the then President and UDF leader Bakili Muluzi his career suffered steep ups and downs before Muluzi picked him as the UDF’s presidential candidate in the 2004 election...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 |
- MALAWI
In 1992 he joined the United Democratic Front which turned itself from an underground movement into a powerful political force with UDF candidate Bakili Muluzi winning Malawi’s first multiparty elections in 1994...
Vol 52 No 21 |
- MALAWI
- SUDAN
In 2007 when Sata was in opposition he visited Malawi to see its former President Bakili Muluzi...
He had been nominated for the presidency by Banda’s successor Bakili Muluzi who had twice failed to change the constitution so as to retain power beyond the legal two five-year terms...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 6 |
- MALAWI
- CHINA
- TAIWAN
The corruption trial of Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi at the Blantyre High Court exposes the lack of transparency and good governance in Taiwan’s aid to African countries...
Bakili Muluzi 69 stands accused of misappropriating US$12 million in aid from international donors...
Vol 51 No 8 |
- MALAWI
- OBITUARY
Banda’s life in politics (1953–2008) was devoted intensely to his country as it fought for and won Independence from Britain in 1964 as it established the political and economic structures of an independent state under Hastings Kamuzu Banda and as it created the framework of a multiparty democracy under Bakili Muluzi (1994-2004)...
When his successor Bakili Muluzi made public appointments from his own Yao people and was seen as favouring their Muslim faith over Christianity and to be building more roads and power lines in their Machinga district than elsewhere he was strongly criticised too...
Its Chairman ex-President Bakili Muluzi is now recovering in Britain from a back operation in the London Clinic...
His campaign portrayed his presidential predecessor Bakili Muluzi as an embezzler of state funds who would be convicted in court...
The main opposition parties Tembo's Malawi Congress Party and ex-President Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front won 26 and 17 seats respectively...
Both his predecessors in the presidency Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi tried – and failed – to stay there for ever...
