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Malawi starts voter registration exercise
The independent Malawi Electoral Commission has announced that registration for the 19 May, 2009 general elections begins 18 August 2008. |
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Malawi President suspends parliamentary budget session
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika Friday ordered the immediate closure of the current budget session of the Parliament for what he c a lled opposition members of parliament's irresponsible behaviour. |
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Continued impasse in parliament dominates Malawi press
Stories from the Malawi Parliament, where the opposition has insisted it will not discuss and pass the 2008/09 national budget unless and untill all MPs that quit opposition parties to join President Bingu wa Mutharika's newly-founded Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) returned, dominated the local press this week. |
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Malawi parliament reconvenes Monday over delayed budget
The budget session the Malawi parliament reconvenes in the capital, Lilongwe, to discuss and consider the 2008/09 national budget Monday, over a month after the budget was supposed to be in place. |
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Chaka Chaka distributes 1 million treated nets in Malawi
South African song-bird Yvonne Chaka Chaka, has embarked on a two-week campaign to distribute 1.1 million insecticide-treated nets, free of charge, to children aged under-five and pregnant women across Malawi. |
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Politics, ex-president's come-back bid dominate Malawian press
The political impasse that has led Malawi to a peculiar situation of running with no approved national budget for over a month into the 2008/09 financial year and the fervent come-back bid of former president Bakili Muluzi, continued to dominate the headlines in the country's press in the past week. |
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Malawi Ex-President goes to court over eligibility for election
Lawyers for Malawi's former President Bakili Muluzi will be in court Tuesday to argue that their client is still eligible to stand election despite already having served as president for two consecutive five-year terms. |
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