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Malawi Army
The Malawian Defence Force is the state military organisation responsible for defending Malawi. It originated from elements of the British King's African Rifles, colonial units formed before independence in 1964. The military is organized under the purview of the Ministry of Defence. Malawi Army Before independence, Malawi depended for its military supplies on the barracks in Rhodesia, as British colonial military logistics was usually organized on a continental basis, rather than at the level of individual colonies. The Malawi Rifles were formed when the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. Its first battalion was formed from the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles. On independence the battalion became 1st Battalion, The Malawi Rifles (King's African Rifles). They were based at what became the headquarters of the Malawi Army at Cobbe Barracks, Zomba, Malawi, Zomba. Cobbe Barracks had been named in May 1958 for British General Alexander Cobbe VC, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazarus Chakwera
Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera (born 5 April 1955) is a Malawian theologian and politician who has served as President of Malawi since June 2020. In addition to the Presidency, he also serves as Defence minister, Minister of Defence per Malawian constitution. He has been leader of the Malawi Congress Party since 2013, and was previously Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Malawi, National Assembly following 2019 Malawian general election, highly controversial elections held on 21 May 2019 which were overturned by the Constitutional Court. He was appointed chairman of Southern African Development Community, SADC on 17 August at the SADC 41st Annual Summit held on 9 August to 19 August in Lilongwe, Malawi. He was President of the Malawi Assemblies of God from 1989 to 14 May 2013. Personal life Lazarus Chakwera was born in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, on 5 April 1955 when the country was still Nyasaland, under British colonial rule. His father was primary school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobbe Barracks
Cobbe is an Irish surname, and may refer to: *Cobbe family, a prominent Irish family *Alexander Cobbe, Irish General and holder of VC *Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer and animal rights activist *Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin *John Cobbe, Irish born New Zealand politician * Cobbe portrait, believed to be the only existing painting of William Shakespeare, in possession of the Cobbe family at the Newbridge Estate. See also *Cobb (surname) Cobb is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon/Old Norse origin. Notable people with the surname "Cobb" include A *Abbie Cobb (born 1985), American actress *Alex Cobb (born 1987), American baseball player * Alf Cobb (1892–1974), American football pl ... * Cobbs *Dowle {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mwanza District
Mwanza is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Mwanza. The district covers an area of 2,259 km² and has a population of 138,015. Mwanza is a border town whose economy is based largely on transport. The agricultural economy for many years has depended upon citrus fruits (tangerine, lemon and grapefruit) as Mwanza is one of the few areas of the country where the climate is favourable for the growth of such crops. However, for over a decade production has been falling and the citrus industry has been in decline, despite efforts by the citrus growers association ZIPATSO. Mwanza in 2003 was split into two districts, Neno and Mwanza, under the decentralisation program. Neno's population is 75,000. Demographics At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Mwanza District by ethnic group was as follows: * 59.3% Chewa * 30.4% Ngoni * 4.2% Lomwe * 2.3% Mang'anja * 1.4% Yao * 1.1% Sena * 0.5% Tumbuka * 0.1% Tonga * 0.1% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist League Of Malawi
The Socialist League of Malawi (LESOMA) was a political party officially founded in 1974 in Tanzania by exiled Malawians. Its then self-declared goals were to re-establish the honor of Malawi, its legitimate place in the Organisation of African Unity and in the United Nations and especially to secure that Malawi would play an active role in the advancement of the African revolution and international solidarity. alt= , Cover picture of Kuchanso, the political manifest of the Socialist League of Malawi Foundation and Political Leadership Documented information about this party is rare; it was not only founded in exile but also ceased to exist there. However, beside the self-declaration quoted above a self-portrayal of LESOMA from the estate of one of the members of its steering committee, Mahoma Mwaungulu, further states that its emergence was the result of a dispute in Tanzania between Yatuta Chisiza, who had studied in China, and Masauko Chipembere yet in the second half of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yatuta Chisiza
Yatuta Chisiza (born 1926 – died October 1967, near Blantyre, Malawi) was a Malawi minister of home affairs who led a brief guerrilla incursion into the country in October 1967. He entered Mwanza district from Tanzania with nine others. In the following clash with security forces on 9 October 1967 he and two other members of insurgent forces were killed, five captured, others fleeing. Early years Chisiza was born in the Karonga district of northern Malawi (then Nyasaland) in 1926, to Kaluli Chisiza, a Group Village Headman. He was educated at Uliwa Junior Primary School and at the mission school at Livingstonia. He subsequently worked as an Assistant Inspector of Police in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) and returned to Malawi in 1958. For a short time he, together with his brother Dunduzu Chisiza, attempted to go in business operating a butcher's shop in Blantyre market, but this venture soon failed. Nyasaland Independence Movement After the historic Nyasaland African Congress co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machinga District
Machinga is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Machinga. The district covers an area of 3,771 km.² and has a population of 369,614. Demographics At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Machinga District by ethnic group was as follows: * 57.8% Yao * 27.5% Lomwe * 6.4% Chewa * 5.4% Nyanja * 0.9% Ngoni * 0.7% Mang'anja * 0.7% Sena * 0.3% Tumbuka * 0.0% Nkhonde * 0.0% Lambya * 0.0% Sukwa * 0.1% Others Government and administrative divisions There are seven National Assembly constituencies in Machinga: * Machinga - Central * Machinga - Central East * Machinga - East * Machinga - Likwenu * Machinga - North East * Machinga - South * Machinga - South East Since the 2009 general election most of these constituencies (except Machinga Central and Machinga Likwenu, which have been held by members of the Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangochi District
Dedza district is one of twelve Districts of Malawi, districts in the central region of Malawi. The capital is Mangochi, lilongwe. The district covers an area of 6,273 km.² and has a population of 610,239. The Mangochi District is a hub of commerce. It is a transit point, with roads leading to all areas of Malawi and Mozambique to the east. In fact, the border is not far once you cross the Shire River. To the north, the road bifurcates into the Salima (township), Salima or Monkey Bay roads. To the west, is the hilly region of Dedza. Traveling south, the road climbs up the Machinga escarpment to Zomba, Malawi, Zomba, the former colonial capital of Nyasaland, and from there to Malawi's commercial hub of Blantyre, Malawi, Blantyre (named after David Livingstone, David Livingstone's home town near Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow). It is fiercely hot in summer and ambient in winter. It is on the flood-plain for Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyassa). The lake is the third largest and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere
Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere (5 August 1930 – 24 September 1975) was a Malawian nationalist politician who played a significant role in bringing independence from colonial rule to his native country, formerly known as Nyasaland. From an early age Chipembere was a strong believer in natural justice and, on his return in 1954 from university in South Africa, he joined his country's independence struggle as a nationalist strategist and spokesman. In 1957, considering that the independence movement need such a strong leader similar to Kwame Nkrumah, and considering himself too young for this task, he joined with other young nationalists in inviting Hastings Kamuzu Banda to return to Nyasaland as the movement's leader. From 1958, Chipembere orchestrated a campaign of civil disobedience against the colonial authorities that Banda insisted should be non-violent, but which the younger leaders allowed to become more violent, and which eventually led the governor of Nyasaland to dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet Crisis Of 1964
The cabinet crisis of 1964 in Malawi occurred in August and September 1964 shortly after independence when, after an unresolved confrontation between the Prime Minister, Hastings Banda (later Malawi's first President) and the cabinet ministers present on 26 August 1964, three ministers and a parliamentary secretary were dismissed on 7 September. These dismissals were followed by the resignations of three more cabinet ministers and another parliamentary secretary, in sympathy with those dismissed. Initially, this only left the President and one other minister in post, although one of those who had resigned rescinded his resignation within a few hours. The reasons that the ex-ministers put forward for the confrontation and subsequent resignations were the autocratic attitude of Banda, who failed to consult other ministers and kept power in his own hands, his insistence on maintaining diplomatic relations with South Africa and Portugal and a number of domestic austerity measures. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-commissioned Officer
A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not pursued a commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks. (Non-officers, which includes most or all enlisted personnel, are of lower rank than any officer.) In contrast, commissioned officers usually enter directly from a military academy, officer candidate school (OCS), or officer training school (OTS) after receiving a post-secondary degree. The NCO corps usually includes many grades of enlisted, corporal and sergeant; in some countries, warrant officers also carry out the duties of NCOs. The naval equivalent includes some or all grades of petty officer. There are different classes of non-commissioned officers, including junior (lower ranked) non-commissioned officers (JNCO) and senior/staff (higher ranked) non-commissioned officers (SNCO). Function The non-commissioned officer corps has been referred to as "the backbone" of the armed se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Thornton
Colonel Dudley Edwin Thornton, CBE, ERD (1 May 1919 – 22 April 2009) was a British soldier, who commanded the 18th Battalion of the King's African Rifles during the Burma Campaign, and was chairman of the Welch Regiment Museum, in Cardiff, from 1974 until his death. Biography Dudley Edwin Thornton was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 1 May 1919. His father was Edwin Dudley (1865–1951), an electrical engineer, and his mother was Dorothy Rebecca Bryer (1894–1973). Thornton was educated, and brought up, in Bristol. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thornton joined the Supplementary Reserve and was commissioned into the Welch Regiment as a second lieutenant. For the first few years of the war, Thornton served in the anti-invasion forces, on the south coast. In 1943, he was sent to East Africa to join the 18th Battalion of the King's African Rifles. He spent the remainder of the war taking part in the Burma Campaign. When the War ended, he returned to serving with the Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellor College
The University of Malawi (UNIMA) is a public university established in 1965 and until 4 May 2021, when the university underwent a delinking, was composed of four constituent colleges located in Zomba, Blantyre, and Lilongwe. Of the four colleges, the largest is Chancellor College in Zomba (now the University of Malawi under Vice-Chancellor Professor Samson Sajidu). It is part of the Malawian government educational system. The last Vice-Chancellor was Professor John Kalenga Saka. UNIMA celebrated its golden jubilee from the 24 to the 26 September 2015. Vision The vision of the University of Malawi is to provide "relevant, world-class education, research and services for the sustainable development of Malawi and the world." Significance The university is the centre of knowledge, development of skills values, ideas and attitudes for engaging developmental challenges in the country. History The University of Malawi was founded a few months after Malawi Independence. The first enrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
