Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top brass have endorsed Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mutharika to assume to role of president of the party which was led by his older brother late President Bingu wa Mutharika. A meeting held at Minister of Energy Goodall Gondwe’s residence in Lilongwe agreed that the president’s brother who was endorsed as […]
African leaders have started sending condolence messages to Malawians through acting President, Her Excellency Joyce Banda following the death of Head of State Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday April 5. Kenyan President Mwayi Kibaki and Botswana President Ian Khama were the first leaders to send the condolences through Her Excellency Banda. Kibaki in a message […]
There has been a mixed reaction among Christians in Malawi after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika was leaked http://www.malawidemocrat.com/politics/bingu-wa-mutharika-is-dead/ (as I write the government is still tight-lipped). There are those Christians who are openly grateful about the death of the president. The President’s blatant abuse of human rights and disregard to the rule of […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi has called for “constitutional order” following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, basically calling for Vice-President Joyce Banda to take over as head of state. And the Malawi Law Society has also added its weight, saying the Constitution mandates the Vice President to take over the reins of power. […]
First, can I thank you for keeping us in the dark. Second, could you please remember that we elected you? And we elected you constitutionally. We therefore expect that the constitution will be followed during this time when the president has become incapacitated. Already there are worrisome rumours: meetings at Goodall Gondwe’s house; rumours of […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika who had suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday is reportedly dead but the President’s kitchen cabinet continues its aggressive ploy aimed at holding on to power at all cost. Information which Nyasa Times has verified with government and medical officials at Kamuzu Central Hospital where he was treated, Mutharika has […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is in critical condition but stable, according to State House. State House Chief of Staff, Edward Sawerengela, made the announcement on Thursday night through state controlled MBC television after reports filter in that the President has failed to fight on the battle of heart attack. The statemement says Mutharika fell […]
Incapacitated Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, is being taken to a South African hospital in a bid to resuscitate him from a cardiac arrest, cabinet sources say. Malawi cabinet met for an emergency meeting when the President was taken ill to Kamuzu Central Hospital suffering a heart attack Thursday morning. An air ambulance is […]
A journalist for a privately owned Zodiak radio was Thursday night briefly detained and cautioned by police inside Kamuzu Central Hospital premises after he was found filing reports of President Bingu was Mutharika who had collapsed after a cardiac arrest. The reporter Norman Fulatira had hidden inside the premises after the security forces had ordered […]
Law experts say Vice President Joyce Banda will step in as Malawi’s Head of State after reports emerged that President Bingu wa Mutharika had suffered a cardiac arrest. Mutharika was admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital in morning after he collapsed at State House. Doctors are said to have attempted to resuscitate him but the condition […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, 78 on Thursday was evacuated to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe where doctors were attending to him after emergency medical difficulties. Nyasa Times sources at the State House said Mutharika had collapsed while he was having an audience with a Mrs Penimulungu and was rushed to the hospital. At the […]
Naturally, President Bingu Mutharika’s land slide victory into his second term in 2009, gave him a reason for what looks like a pumped up self importance. With all due respect the tone of the President when addressing people shows that he is of another kind not a leader who has empathy for poor Malawians. As […]
Tembo: We will not allow rigging this time around Malawi Leader of Opposition, John Tembo, has cautioned President Bingu wa Mutharika against plotting to rig the 2014 presidential elections that will be held simultaneously with parliamentary and local government polls. Tembo said President Mutharika‘s inaction on the appointment of the Commissioners to run the Malawi […]
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika played host to a team of the Bretton Woods’ Institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Lilongwe where over an hour of talks seem to have started sending a positive signal over Malawi and her patiently-waiting donors. An IMF staff team, led by Tsidi Tsikata, concluded a two-week visit to […]
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) says it has not reneged from its call on Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to leave office or face civil unrest for mismanaging the economy and trampling on democratic freedoms. PAC which is made up of religious groups said Mutharika should either quit office or a referendum be called to […]
Government says the Nkhoma Synod pastoral letter released on Sunday was not written in good faith, arguing it is a result of discontent, according to a report in The Nation of Tuesday, April 03, 2012. Capital Hill argues that the letter is from a disgruntled group that is crying for an unfulfilled K10 million pledge […]
China says it is ready to hand over to the Malawian government the US$90- million conference building built with Chinese aid loan in the country’s capital of Lilongwe, according to Chinese Ambassador Pan Hejun. The 1, 500-seat Malawi International Conference Centre project, which is affiliated with a 130-room business hotel, a 1,000-seat dining hall and […]
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela Dear Mr. President, It is with much trepidation and yet with a sense of hope that I respectfully write to […]