Bingu wa Mutharika

The late Bingu wa Mutharika is reckoned to have taken the palm in the rich president stakes having accumulated an estimated $200 mn...

Opponents of Professor Peter Mutharika presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and brother of the late Bingu wa Mutharika the last elected President are challenging his eligibility to stand on the grounds that he possesses a Green Card which gives him right of residence in the United States...

Sidik Mia is likely to be more welcome at the DPP which he left soon after Bingu wa Mutharika's sudden death in April 2012 (AC Vol 53 Nos 8 How Mutharika went wrong & 10 Three days in April)...

The late President Bingu wa Mutharika secretly bought the US$13 million Dassault Falcon 900EX in 2009 prompting a £3 mn...

Since her time as Foreign Affairs Minister to the late President Bingu wa Mutharika Banda has been close to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and she has equally strong ties with Zambia's President Michael Sata...

Atupele Muluzi son of former President Bakili Muluzi and leader of the United Democratic Front has floundered since Banda took over from Bingu wa Mutharika on 9 April 2012...

The rebirth of the subsidy programme in Africa owed much to the former World Bank economist and President of Malawi the late Bingu wa Mutharika who introduced fertiliser subsidies to smallholders in his country in 1998 greatly increasing production...

Once more 40% of the budget comes from external funds as it did before human rights abuses by the government of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika led to the suspension of aid in 2011...

Brothers in rhetoric The DPP meanwhile has been riding mainly on the anti-devaluation rhetoric that was the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s stock in trade...

The arrests which prompted clashes in the commercial capital Blantyre follow the submission of a 105-page Commission of Enquiry report into the death of Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika a year ago...

' Bingu wa Mutharika had expelled Banda from his DPP and she had retaliated by founding her own People's Party (PP)...

Treason suspects now on bail Arthur Peter Mutharika brother of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika and acting President of the Democratic Progressive Party...

She founded the PP after the late President Bingu wa Mutharika expelled her from the DPP (AC Vol 53 No 10 A long-distance run for Banda & Three days in April)...

Tensions had been rising since October 2011 after the late Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika awarded British oil company Surestream Petroleum licences to conduct oil exploration in the lake...

President Bingu wa Mutharika who died in April had been allocated a plush Zimbabwean commercial farm and became such an ardent apologist for Mugabe that Jonathan Moyo tried to blame his sudden death on yet another imperialist conspiracy...