Bingu wa Mutharika (Brightson Webster Ryson Thom)

Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma visited Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on 21-24 January en route to last month’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia...

President Bingu wa Mutharika has stood up to his opponents in civil society and shows no sign of meeting their demands or of loosening his grip on power...

Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi...

The 20 July confrontation when police shot dead 19 people with many more injured rocked President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government (AC Vol 52 No 16 The President lashes out)...

President Bingu wa Mutharika’s shift from egotistical technocrat to violent despot was not entirely surprising given his style of government over the past six years...

President Bingu wa Mutharika is ploughing ahead with an optimistic ‘zero-deficit’ budget despite the fact that most of the aid that supports 40% of that budget is missing...

Fearing a revolt along North African lines President Bingu wa Mutharika has unleashed a wave of repression and intimidation prompting further dissent as Western governments respond by cutting aid...

The small People’s Progressive Movement demanded that Bingu wa Mutharika remove his brother Professor A...

President Bingu wa Mutharika hosted the opening ceremony and attracted regional leaders such as President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Zambia’s Rupiah Banda...

The Human Rights Consultative Committee Malawi Congress of Trade Unions and Public Affairs Committee organised the protest: President Bingu wa Mutharika had warned them ‘not to be inspired by Egypt’ and put 250 armed police on the streets...

Having bucked conventional wisdom on government subsidies to small farmers President Bingu wa Mutharika staked his election chances on his Farm Input Subsidy Programme in the 2005 and 2009 elections and won decisively (AC Vol 50 No 23)...