On 21 October Hophmally Makande former Publicity Secretary for ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) was also detained...
Vol 55 No 20 |
- AFRICA
- URANIUM
Former President Joyce Banda ousted from office in the May elections announced at an investment conference last year in London that her government was working on wide-ranging reform to the existing Mines and Minerals Act which dates back to 1981...
A member of Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee told Africa Confidential that its report on the affair will reveal the full scale of the involvement of all the three major political parties: the governing Democratic Progressive Party ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party and the Malawi Congress Party...
Mphwiyo has claimed that the former Minister of Information under president Joyce Banda Brown Mpinganjira and Lands Minister Henry Phoya tried to intimidate him (AC Vol 55 No 17 Brother with a difference)...
' 'If the Government implicates Joyce Banda I am sure the report that was presented to her and contains all the names will be found in the media and that will damage the DPP...
President Joyce Banda was never in her office...
In a letter dated 18 April and copied to among others United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Malawi's then President and SADC Chairperson Joyce Banda; and Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila the FDLR invited the recipients to attend a ceremonial surrender of men and weapons to SADC...
At his inauguration on 2 June from which former President Joyce Banda was conspicuously absent Mutharika promised to get to the bottom of the Cashgate affair...
President Joyce Banda pressed the self-destruct button on her public image at home and in the wider world when she tried to annul the 20 May presidential election...
President Joyce Banda standing on her People's Party (PP) ticket faces ten other candidates from 53 registered parties...
The sight of President Joyce Banda handing out large bags of free maize with her name boldly printed on them in red is common as the election campaign gathers pace...
The maize is purchased by her charitable Joyce Banda Foundation and distributed free throughout the country...
Joyce Banda went into business at 25 with Ndekhani Garments...
After the riots Joyce Banda and her family went into hiding...
The proceeds were used to establish the Joyce Banda Foundation...
President Joyce Banda was recently accused of benefitting from arms contractors from South Africa who gave her free use of the presidential jet that she had sold (AC Vol 55 No 3 Scandals to dominate polls)...