MALAWIAN President Bakili Muluzi has axed three key ministers in a cabinet reshuffle in a bid to improve the government’s image following damaging allegations of top-level corruption. Those dropped were former education minister Cassim Chilumpha, whose ministry is at the centre of a $2m corruption scandal, former transport minister Brown Mpinganjira and former labour minister Peter Chupa. Mpinganjira and Chilumpha helped found Muluzi’s party in 1992, when it was an underground movement pushing for democratic and human rights reforms under former dictator Kamuzu Banda’s regime. – AFP