Part 1: media freedom after 1994 The role played by opposition parties and politicians in the current political crisis has not been sufficiently analysed. This has implications for current human rights and civil society campaigns. Those people with short memories think Bingu wa Mutharika is solely to blame for recent abuses of human rights and […]
Malawian Police officers will be executing a search warrant at former president Bakili Muluzi’s home village residence, Kapoloma, in Machinga early Monday, Nyasa Times understands. This follows presidential orders following Muluzi’s outburst when he arrived in the country last Saturday to comfort his son, Machinga North East lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, who was arrested last week […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi on Saturday returned home from South Africa where he was receiving treatment and told a news conference on arrival that he will not be cowed into submission by his successor, President Bingu wa Mutharika. Muluzi arrived through Blantyre’s Chileka Airport at noon on a South African Airways Boeing 737. He […]
Malawi’s former president Dr. Bakili Muluzi says the incumbent president Bingu wa Mutharika lacks a human heart and he has since vowed to find a way of fighting him back. Muluzi, the first democratically elected president who ruled Malawi from 1994 to 2004, said this through a local weekend newspaper Malawi News. “In this world […]
Former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi has asked his doctors to allow him return home from South Africa where he travelled to receive medical treatment following the arrest of his son, lawmaker and presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi. Atupele was arrested by Police in Lilongwe on Tuesday as he was travelling to Blantyre. He has been detained […]
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Former Speaker of Parliament and cabinet minister, Davies Chester Katsonga on Tuesday accused President Bingu wa Mutharika of imposing his brother and Foreign Minister Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika as the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) torch-bearer in the 2014 national presidential polls. Katsonga told journalists and a handful of his followers when he announced the […]
Plans by President Bingu wa Mutharika to have his brother, Peter, inherit power in 2014, will face a battle from a band of opposition politicians who will go flat out to fight “dynastyisation” of presidency, veteran opposition politician Gwanda Chakuamba has said. Chakuamba, president of New Republican Party (NRP), says he has come out of […]
Malawi’s former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) says it has no president and intents to fill the position at the convention to be held later this year, escalating feuding with acting party president Friday Jumbe. Jumbe was made interim leader when former Head of State and UDF national chairman Bakili Muluzi retired from front line politics in […]
Accusations and counter-accusations continue to rock the former governing United Democratic Front (UDF), with the faction that is led by acting president Friday Jumbe rubbishing a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting called by Secretary-General, Kennedy Makwangwala in Blantyre on Sunday, which appointed new people in positions held by officials supporting Jumbe. On Sunday, Makwangwala, who […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi joined other retired and serving African Heads of State to a visit in Equatorial Guinea. The visit was broadcast on Equatorial Guinea national television. Muluzi, who flew from South Africa where he is receiving treatment for his back-problem, was in the company of former Mozambican President Chissano, Benin President Thomas […]
Former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi, currently undergoing medical treatment in South Africa, has given his support to the campaign to free human rights lawyer and activist Ralph Kasambara. Speaking on his hospital bed in Cape Town, South Africa, Muluzi who is a goodwill ambassador and messenger of justice and human rights for Africa said the government […]
“Malawi Government security guard, who was deployed to Bakili Muluzi, has found himself in an awkward situation for being used by the former president’s son, Atupele Muluzi. The bodyguard sustained a broken leg during a political whistle-stop tour organised by Atupele.” –The Nation, Saturday February 11, 2012. Atupele Muluzi, despite two major drawbacks, has kicked […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has accused former president Bakili Muluzi for squandering about US$19 million meant for the abandoned five-star Namiwawa Hotel Project, saying his administration is now tasked to repay the loan from South Africa. According to Mutharika, the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) government “borrowed US $18 or US $19m from South Africa to […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi is seeking compensation from government for false imprisonment, physical inconvenience and defamation following his arrest in 2008 on coup plot allegations. Malawi government already compensated former army head of intelligence, Brigadier General Cosgrave Mituka, and Major General Mathews Chirwa who were arrested on the same coup plot saga. Government also […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) had a busy weekend when its two factions held mass rallies in Zomba and Balaka, which all attracted mammoth crowds. In Zomba, acting UDF president Friday Jumbe held the rally at Ntonya constituency where he was joined on the podium by former state vice president Cassim Chilumpha and ex-Speaker […]
Some of the country’s eminent clergymen, Bishop Dr. James Tengatenga of the Anglican Church and Reverend Dr. Felix Chingota of the Church of the Central African Presbyterian (CCAP), have failed to persuade Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi to completely retire from politics in order to enable the UDF to unite “because he is angry”. A […]
Former President Bakili Muluzi did not play any role in restoring relations between Malawi and Zambia, Malawi’s Information Minister Patricia Kaliati has said. Recently, Muluzi flew to Zambia to persuade President Michael Sata to forgive President Bingu Mutharika who have been regarded as archrivals over the last four years since the unceremonious hounding out of […]