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/ 13 January 2009
In a two-bedroomed iron house in the southern district of Phalombe, Malawi, Simati Matupa is watching the television he has just bought.
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/ 18 September 2008
Raphael Mweninguwe is forced into a close encounter with the notorious township ‘taxi’.
Malawians who spoke to the Mail & Guardian this week said Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe should step down.
National budget becomes a political football in party squabble, putting vital foreign aid payments at risk.
Bakili Muluzi, the former Malawian head of state, faces an uphill battle in his bid to become the country’s president for the third time in next year’s presidential election.
Former Malawian president Bakili Muluzi dominated local media headlines over the past three weeks after returning from the United Kingdom, where he went for a medical check-up. But this time it is not his health but his desire to run again as president in 2009 elections that has attracted the media’s attention.
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/ 18 October 2005
The Malawi Council of Churches has threatened to enter the country’s National Assembly draped in gowns to protest against opposition moves to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika and to press politicians to focus on ”problems besetting the people”. It is estimated that up to 4,2-million Malawi citizens, of a population of 12-million, face serious food shortages.
President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi was thrown his first curve ball in Parliament last Wednesday since his dramatic defection from the United Democratic Front, on whose ticket he ascended to the country’s top job in May last year. His appointment of the first woman inspector-general of police, Mary Nangwale, was rejected by Parliament.
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/ 11 February 2005
Malawian President Bingu Mutharika’s tenure is becoming increasingly tenuous after the largest opposition, the Malawi Congress Party, joined the ruling United Democratic Party (UDF) in demanding that he step down. Mutharika resigned from the UDF last Saturday after a bitter nine-month stand-off with his predecessor and current party chair Bakili Muluzi over his tough stance on corruption.
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/ 19 November 2004
Former Malawian minister of sports and culture Philip Bwanali has been arrested on allegations that he swindled 11,5-million kwacha (about R640 000) meant for sports development in the country. Bwanali was arrested last Saturday. He is the fifth senior member of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) to be arrested on corruption charges.