President Joyce Banda has revealed a shake-up of top officials charged with government finances and media, purging loyalists of the former regime.
Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda has fired the nation’s police chief and hired a new one, two days after she took office.
Malawi will swear in it’s first female leader Joyce Banda, who is described as a fierce critic of deceased president Bingu wa Mutharika.
Malawi’s government on Saturday confirmed the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika and vowed to adhere to a constitutional transition.
Joyce Banda, who rose to prominence as a champion of women’s rights, seems set to become the second female African head of state in modern times.
State sources say Malawi leader Bingu wa Mutharika has died after being rushed to Lilongwe Hospital during a heart attack but was dead on arrival.
A record 220 women are running in Malawi’s presidential and parliamentary polls on Tuesday, representing about 20% of candidates for the 193 seats.
South Africa’s aspirations to lead the continent are being shredded by the xenophobic mobs who have hacked, shot and beaten to death at least 42 African migrants in the land where apartheid was defeated. The mobs accuse the immigrants of depriving South Africans of scarce jobs and fuelling crime.
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/ 14 January 2008
Malawi has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan after 41 years and established links with China, which has become a major economic power in Africa. ”We have decided to switch from Taiwan to mainland China after careful consideration of the benefits that we will be getting from mainland China,” Foreign Affairs Minister Joyce Banda told a press conference on Monday.