Bingu wa Mutharika

The Chinese government is also financing the construction of new schools but opposition politicians note that a university and new secondary school have been selected for President Bingu wa Mutharika’s home district of Thyolo...

South African President Jacob Zuma Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika (Chairman of the African Union) and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (New Programme for African Development Chairman) led Africa’s delegation to the summit...

To judge by his speech delivered in stentorian tones to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September President Bingu wa Mutharika is presiding over a new economic miracle...

The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) summit in Swaziland at the end of August which President Bingu wa Mutharika attended pledged to support tobacco growers around the world in opposing changes to the United Nations World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...

When five dogs belonging to a white Zimbabwean couple Dean and Helen van Schalhwal savaged their 72-year-old watchman Samson Chimdima in Lilongwe last month the incident escalated into a political furore drawing in President Bingu wa Mutharika...

Rarely does a week go by without front-page coverage in the state newspapers of Mugabe’s latest foray: greeting Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the Group of Fourteen meeting in Tehran Iran then a quick ‘shopover’ for Grace Mugabe in Dubai United Arab Emirates; gatecrashing the World Economic Forum meeting in Dar es Salaam Tanzania at which Mutambara and Tsvangirai were invited participants last month; a wedding party in Malawi with his ally President Bingu wa Mutharika; a visit to Senegal ably facilitated by Ambassador Trudy Stevenson (nominated by the Movement for Democratic Change MDC); and attending the World Cup kick-off in Soweto on 11 June...

Yet he should also earn credit for some of the policies that have created economic well-being under Bingu wa Mutharika especially the fertiliser and seed subsidies which have massively boosted farm production...

Instead Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika took over on 1 February with a call for food security across the continent and practical measures to eliminate childhood malnutrition – the cause of physical stunting and mental underdevelopment for perhaps a third of Africa’s infants – within five years...

) a new science university in President Bingu wa Mutharika's home region of Thyolo and a luxury hotel and conference centre ($90 mn...

‘I am a product of India ’ Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika Chairman of the 53-member African Union and a graduate of Delhi University said in January...