/ 2 March 2000

NEW MALAWI CABINET NAMED

MALAWI’s President Bakili Muluzi shifted Finance Minister Cassim Chilumpha, who is under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday. He appointed central bank governor Mathews Chikaonda Finance and Economic Planning Minister, giving Chilumpha Education, Sports and Culture. Muluzi, who dissolved his cabinet on Sunday, named a new cabinet of 24 ministers and nine deputies through his secretary Alfred Upindi. Foreign Minister Brown Mpinganjira was moved to Transport and Public Works and replaced by Lilian Patel. Muluzi, who held the position of defence minister, has given it to Rodwell Munyenyembe, previously minister of state for presidential affairs.