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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
While President Banda was inside the building, four long queues had formed outside as people wearing sombre faces awaited their turn to enter the building to pay their last respects to President wa Mutharika. As early as 6am, grieving Malawians from...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is seen during the 18th African Union (AU) summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa January 28, 2012. President Mutharika has died after a heart attack, medical and government sources said on April 6, 2012...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
The remains of Malawi's late president Bingu wa Mutharika arrived in the capital Lilongwe on Saturday from South Africa, where his body had been taken secretly to be embalmed. Thousands of Malawians waited with new President Joyce Banda as the South...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
The body of Malawi's late President Bingu wa Mutharika has been flown home from South Africa. Thousands joined new President Joyce Banda at Kamuzu airport to receive the South African military aircraft. Mr Mutharika, who was 78, suffered a heart...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Banda said she was pinning her hopes on donors to re-open aid taps after she started talking to them on possible resumption of aid frozen over governance and macroeconomic concerns, April 10, 2012. Malawians are hoping the country's new president,...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
The Malawian government's mysterious decision to delay the announcement of President Bingu wa Mutharika's death by two days was the consequence of a plot by his brother, Peter, and allies from Mutharika's Democratic People's Party (DPP) to prevent...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika's sudden death last week, which resulted in Vice-President Joyce Banda assuming power in a peaceful and constitutional manner, provides an opportunity for the Southern African Development Community to improve its...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The 78-year old Mutharika collapsed after suffering a heart attack last Thursday and later died at Kamuzu Central Hospital, in the capital Lilongwe. A tense 48-hour period ensued in Malawi as Mutharika's closest allies, including his wife Callista...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The recent transfer of power, from President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on 5th April of a heart-attack, to his Vice-President, Joyce Banda, is well within this tradition. Although he had loathed Joyce Banda almost from the moment he had appointed...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Sixty-two-year-old Banda succeeds the late President Bingu wa Mutharika who died last Thursday of cardiac arrest. Although Malawi is still in mourning, the region appreciates that the people of Malawi opted to follow the letter and spirit of their...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
For it was during the country's civil society mobilisation against the former government that social media first gained popularity as a platform for airing grievances here. Now, as Banda begins to purge the Malawian government of corrupt officials...
