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Malawi

Bingu wa Mutharika (Brightson Webster Ryson Thom)

Date of Birth: 24 February 1934
Place of Birth: Thyolo, Nyasaland
Died: 5 April 2012


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New politics at last

Amid last year's chaos President Bingu wa Mutharika's nervous government suspended parliamentary sittings for seven months (AC Vol 47 No 5)...


Old contenders, new hopefuls

Democratic Progressive Party hopefuls Goodall Gondwe: MP Mzimba North; respected Finance Minister; former Head International Monetary Fund Africa Department and President African Development Bank; ex-President Muluzi's former economic advisor introduced to politics by President Bingu wa Mutharika...


Bingu's gamble

Yet last month President Bingu wa Mutharika told Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha to go...


Trials and tribulations

Despite widespread hunger President Bingu wa Mutharika's government will survive the year amid disillusion with his autocratic leadership and many parliamentarians' wish to impeach him (AC Vol 46 No 21)...


Disaster

President Bingu wa Mutharika's declaration of a national disaster because of the food shortages which threaten over half of Malawi's eleven million people may boost contributions to the United Nations' famine appeal...


Deadlock

The row has swelled into a crisis with the opposition determined both to block the budget for the year to come proposed by Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe and to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika...


Who's who in the struggle

Bingu wa Mutharika President since he won the 2004 poll with support from the outgoing Bakili Muluzi and his United Democratic Front...


Hunger and hullaballoo

Parliament's tumultuous short April session was the first since President Bingu wa Mutharika bailed out of the United Democratic Front and the first since he launched the Democratic Progressive Party in a familiar wave of colourful rallies dancing women and praise singers...


It's my party

By resigning from the United Democratic Front which carried him to the presidency last year President Bingu wa Mutharika has triggered political confusion (AC Vol 46 No 2)...


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