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Malawi has again postponed local elections that are constitutionally required to be held by May 2010, local government minister Goodall Gondwe told Parliament on Tuesday. The last local polls were held in 2000, but the next in 2005 were called off because...
Tags: local polls, local government, Malawi, Goodall Gondwe, Lilongwe, Bakili Muluzi, Politics, Goodall Edward Gondwe, Elections in Malawi
Malawi's veteran politician, Aleke Kadonaphani Banda has advised newly elected members of parliament that they must embrace right time to retire from politics after their service and not try to cling on to power, a thing that has become more of a tradition...
Tags: Aleke Banda, Bakili Muluzi, John Tembo, Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi Congress Party
Malawi's ex-vice president, Cassim Chilumpha has decided to waive his wages as a member of parliament for Khotakota South Constituency in favour of his retirement package as a vice president of the Republic of Malawi. As a retired civil servant Chilumpha...
Tags: Justine Malewizi, Cassim Chilumpha, UDF, MCP, John Tembo, Bakili Muluzi, Brown Mpinganjira
After the legal defeat, Mr Muluzi's United Democratic Front endorsed Malawi Congress Party leader Mr Tembo. The power struggle stems from the aftermath of President Mutharika's election in 2004, when he fell out with his one-time backer, accusing Mr Muluzi...
Tags: Malawi Congress Party, Malawi Electoral Commission, Bingu wa Mutharika, Bingu wa Mutharika, president bingu, Bakili Muluzi, John Tembo
Malawi's constitutional court has ruled that the country's first democratically elected president cannot compete in next week's election. The court disqualified former President Bakili Muluzi because he already has served the maximum two five-year terms...
Tags: Bakili Muluzi, Malawi, Muluzi&, Mr Muluzi, president bakili, constitution court
At that time Dr Banda's state machinery used to hunt down the former dictator's opponents all over the world. Dr Mutharika first went to Zambia, then India where he studied development economics. He later went to the United States where he obtained a...
Tags: Bakili Muluzi, Malawi, Mr Muluzi
Former Malawian president Bakili Muluzi said on Saturday he would challenge an electoral commission decision to bar him from contesting the May 19 presidential election...Muluzi said he believed the decision had been made under political influence, but...
Tags: Bakili Muluzi, Mr Muluzi, Malawian
President Bingu wa Mutharika dissolved Malawi’s opposition-controlled parliament on Friday, enabling campaigning to get under way for the May 19 presidential and parliamentary election. State House Press Officer Chikumbutso Mtumodzi told Reuters the presidential...
Mr Muluzi has been accused of diverting foreign aid money into his private bank accounts while in office. He denies any wrongdoing and has challenged the legality of the bureau's investigation. His supporters say it is a politically-motivated campaign...
Tags: Bakili Muluzi, Malawi, bank account, Mr Muluzi
Malawi today quizzed former president Bakili Muluzi over an alleged coup plot hatched by his party after placing him under house arrest at the weekend, his lawyer said. Mr Muluzi, who ruled between 1994 and 2004 after wresting power from dictator Kamuzu...
Tags: Bakili Muluzi, Mr Muluzi