France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has charged the World Bank and the IMF with causing foreign exchange shortages by forcing the country to liberalise the economy, state media said on Thursday. "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have been forcing us to have a free market economy...but now all foreign business operators externalise forex to Asia and the Middle East,"...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Malawian President wants more power!: “Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, whose party enjoys a parliamentray majority, is seeking to beef up his powers before he exits the political stage in 2014.”
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A long piece by Charles Mkoka in Al-Jazeera.net describes one country’s efforts to adapt : Forty years ago, 60-year-old Willard Nyangu recalls returning to the shores of Lake Malawi after a night fishing with his canoe full of fish. The lake is Africa's third largest with 1,000 cichlids endemic species of fish and its southern part is a Unesco world heritage site. Today it is a very different...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is likely to take over African Union chairmanship from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next January, African Union sources have said.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika has signed the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol which seeks to promote and empower women. He said in the commercial city of Blantyre during the signing ceremony that his government will continue to promote women by increasing their role in various decision making areas. President Mutharika also said the Protocol [...]
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
28 vehicles procured to strengthen health delivery activities ... By admin The Global Alliance and Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) through the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has procured 28 vehicles worth. Net News Publisher - http://www.netnewspublisher.com/snapps-ferry-packing-recalls-ground-beef-products-due-to-possible-e-coli-o157h7-contamination/ On Climate Change...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Bingu wa Mutharika, who was elected to a second term as president of Malawi in May, is an international economist with a PhD from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles in the United States. Since he was first elected in 2004, succeeding Bakili Muluzi, Mutharika has championed rapid economic growth and the fight against corruption. Although he received 66 percent of the votes, his opponent, John...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
BLANTYRE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has named former International Monetary Fund senior economist Perks Ligoya as the new governor of the Reserve Bank, local media reported on Tuesday.
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Lilongwe — Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has come under severe pressure from civil society groups who are demanding he scrap a newly-passed bill allowing 16 year olds to marry with the consent of their parents. Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to which the country is a party defines a child as "every human being below the age of 18"....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has come under severe pressure from civil society groups who are demanding he scrap a newly-passed bill allowing 16-year-olds to marry with the consent of their parents.
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
International cotton buyers in Malawi who buy lint below the government’s set price of 75 Malawi kwacha (53 cents) a kilogram (2.2 pounds) will be deported, President Bingu wa Mutharika said. “I will not allow anyone to steal from Malawian cotton farmers,” Mutharika told reporters late yesterday in the commercial capital of Blantyre on his return from the Non-Aligned Movement’s...
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika says he will discuss the issue of global food security at the two-day Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit which starts on Wednesday in Egypt. "Malawi will raise the issue of global food security. The world has food shortages, there are shortages of rice, wheat and other crops," Mutharika told journalists before leaving for the summit. He said his impoverished...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The American-based International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a well-respected international organisation that seeks to preserve and enhance the security of wild animals. Among its backers have been celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan and Leonardo Di Caprio. The translation of a letter (written in Chichewa) sent on 24 November 2006 from TA Mponda, TA Chimwala & TA Nankumba (Mangochi) to His...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Without a doubt I vote H.E. Bingu wa Mutharika, the President of the Republic of Malawi, one of the best performing African Presidents. And the reason for it is simple; in 2004 when he came into power he made a pledge: “I will not be a president who goes around begging for food”. (..) From food exports and sales to the World Food Programme through the Purchase for Progress Programme, the...
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Wednesday unveiled his new 22 member cabinet with finance minister Goodall Gondwe reshuffled to the local government portfolio. Mutharika, sworn in for a second term last month, retained just eight former ministers who were all shifted to other posts in the cabinet headed by himself and deputy Joyce Banda. The 75-year-old appointed auditor Ken Kandodo, a grand-nephew...
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