Malawi: Leader under fire as ex-party tries to impeach him

Bingu wa Mutharika has nursed ambitions of ruling Malawi since the Hastings Kamuzu Banda dictatorship began to unravel in 1993. But having achieved his goal last year, he could now become the first African president to be impeached. His career began when Mr Banda, Malawi's founding father, became president in 1964. Mr Mutharika became the first Malawian administrator in the civil service, which was then still dominated by the British. But during the so-called "cabinet crisis" in the same year, he fled Malawi for fear that Mr Banda would associate him with the rebelling ministers.