Joyce Hilda Banda

President Joyce Banda faces her toughest political test with the arrest on 11 March of eleven former top officials who have been linked to a treason plot...

'The conduct of Honourable Joyce Banda in forming her own opposition party' Kaliati had confidently announced shortly after the President's death 'precludes her from being eligible to succeed the Presidency...

President Joyce Banda wants to build a parliamentary majority from defectors from the Democratic Progressive Party to her own People's Party...

South Korea is adamant that it did not and will not authorise the arrival of some 100 000 young Malawian workers as announced by President Joyce Banda and her People's Party government in March (AAC Youth export palaver Vol 6 No 8)...

He also obtained influence in the highest echelons of officialdom eventually reaching even President Joyce Banda...

President Joyce Banda’s People’s Party (PP) government first announced the agreement in March...

President Joyce Banda though has much to lose: Malawi is desperately short of revenue and with the next elections due in 2014 she has a short time in which to make her mark...

Mediators hoped the talks would gain impetus from a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel Addis Ababa between Salva Kiir and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir during the AU Summit (which had been transferred at the last minute from Malawi after President Joyce Banda announced that she would have to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Field Marshal Omer if he attended)...

Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda and Foreign Minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume were labelled ‘amateurs’ for refusing to host Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir at the African Union’s July gathering...

Acclaimed at home and abroad as a breath of fresh air when she took office on 7 April President Joyce Banda is being severely put to the test...

The new Malawian President Joyce Banda has refused to invite Lieutenant Gen...

Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda is a close ally of Sata’s and relations between the two countries are bound to improve...