Bakili Muluzi will face corruption charges for pocketing funding that was meant to build a new hospital
Lazarus Chakwera’s ascent to the presidency was made possible by the nine-party Tonse Alliance, which included Mutharika’s former deputy, Saulus Chilima, as his running mate
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika won re-election on Friday, but the opposition said he rigged the vote.
Malawians voted in presidential and parliamentary elections on Tuesday that could rekindle political instability in the southern African country.
A Malawi court on Friday delayed a decision on a long-term dispute on ex-president Bakili Muluzi’s eligibility to run for president for a third time.
Malawi’s Constitutional Court will on Friday rule on the eligibility of Bakili Muluzi to run for president for a third time in next week’s elections.
Malawi’s ex-president Bakili Muluzi has formed an alliance with the party that he toppled 15 years ago, officials said on Thursday.
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi vowed on Saturday to fight the election commission’s decision to bar him from running for president.
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/ 28 January 2009
Bakili Muluzi asserted his innocence in a corruption probe on Wednesday, describing plans to prosecute him as a plot to stop him contesting elections.
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/ 18 October 2008
Malawian authorities said on Saturday they had closed a private radio station recently taken over former president Bakili Muluzi.
Malawi is hoping to enrol seven million people on to its new voters’ roll when registration for next year’s general election opens this month.
National budget becomes a political football in party squabble, putting vital foreign aid payments at risk.
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has suspended the opposition-dominated Parliament over its failure to pass the budget.
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, who had been under house arrest over an alleged coup plot, was freed on bail on Friday after a judge said there was no reason to fear he would try to flee justice. Muluzi was ordered to post bail of 000 and report to police once a month as well as inform them of any plans to travel outside Blantyre.
Former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi has accused the government of fabricating a treason case against him for political reasons and demanded that a court give him bail unconditionally. Muluzi made the charge in a court filing on Tuesday, two days after he was arrested on suspicion of being involved in a plot to overthrow the government.
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday laughed off accusations that he was trying to topple his successor as his lawyers launched a high court bid to end his house arrest. Muluzi has denied any knowledge of documents which purportedly linked him to a coup against President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Former Malawian president Bakili Muluzi was arrested in connection with an alleged coup plot as he returned home from Britain on Sunday, his lawyer said. Five members of Muluzi’s United Democratic Front and three army generals were arrested last week on suspicion of being part of a plot to bring him to power, and an arrest warrant was issued for Muluzi.
Malawi’s announcement that it had foiled a fourth coup attempt in four years is fuelling suspicions of growing government paranoia and doubts over chances for a political deal crucial to donor funding. The arrest of senior opposition figures over the latest suspected plot has left crisis talks between the government and opposition near collapse.
Malawi has arrested two senior army officers for plotting to overthrow the government, police said on Wednesday, a day after the arrest of two opposition leaders on the same charges. The detentions have left crisis talks between the government and the opposition on the brink of collapse, which threatens to derail vital international donor programmes.
A court in Malawi handed down a six-year prison sentence on Tuesday to a former minister over corruption charges dating back 14 years, officials said. Former education minister Sam Mpasu stood accused of having received kickbacks for awarding a British company a deal to provide Malawi with millions of notebooks and pencils.
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/ 20 November 2007
Education authorities in Malawi on Tuesday voided the results of examinations sat by 80 000 students after it emerged that copies of the papers were leaked and sold beforehand to some pupils. Education Secretary Anthony Livuza said fresh senior secondary-school certificate examinations will now be drawn up.
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/ 25 October 2007
Malawi’s anti-corruption agency has arrested the head of the country’s electricity-generating company over allegations of graft, officials said on Thursday. A spokesperson for the Anti-Corruption Bureau said Kandi Padambo was arrested late on Wednesday in the commercial capital, Blantyre.