Malawi: Results of controversial election out Friday

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Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will announce the results of last Tuesday’s closely-fought election on Friday. “The law requires the Commission to announce its determination of the national election results within eight days of … Read More

Malawi: Late president’s brother Peter Mutharika takes early lead in Malawi polls

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Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Peter Mutharika, candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Tuesday’s Malawi presidential elections, could become the next president if unofficial exit polls hold, booting out his archrival President Joyce Banda. Unofficial results, monitored from the … Read More

‘Banda not barred from entering EU’

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President Joyce Banda PANA Blantyre, Malawi – The European Union (EU) delegation in Lilongwe and the Malawi mission to the EU in Brussels have denied reports that President Joyce Banda cancelled her trip to Brussels last week because she was … Read More

Malawi’s Banda assembles new cabinet, sacks 2 key ministers

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Photo: UN PANA Blantyre, Malawi- Malawi president Joyce Banda, who last Thursday sacked her entire cabinet, has constituted a new one comprising mostly her former team with a few surprising additions. Banda, southern Africa’s first female president and Africa’s second, … Read More

President Banda registers to vote ahead of her greatest political challenge in 2014

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Malawi president Joyce Banda PANA ZOMBA, Malawi – Malawi president Joyce Banda on Wednesday registered as a voter ahead of the 2014 elections in her rural constituency of Domasi in the eastern district of Zomba, some 100 kilometres east of … Read More