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Title	Malawi: Information on the Christian Liberation Party
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Malawi
Publication Date	1 July 1992
Citation / Document Symbol	MWI11269
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Malawi: Information on the Christian Liberation Party, 1 July 1992, MWI11269, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ad304c.html [accessed 29 May 2012]
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Malawi: Information on the Christian Liberation Party

In addition to the information already available to you, please find attached some articles that provide information on opposition and political groups other than the ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP).

The oldest article available to the IRBDC in Ottawa on Malawi opposition groups dates back to 1981. However, the only reference to the Christian Liberation Party found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC is in a 1992 report on a speech by Malawi President Hastings Kamuzu Banda (BBC Summary 10 Apr. 1992). In this article, the President refers to "the Christian Liberation Party of Chester Kasonga [phonetic] and Archbishop Tuniseen [phonetic]", with a reference to T.D.T. Banda following a reference to the Congress Liberation Party (Ibid.). President Hastings Kamuzu Banda then refers to T.D.T. Banda, saying that he "could not get anyone to nominate him" and left afterwards for Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), dying in Bulawayo (Ibid.). The article does not clearly link T.D.T. Banda with the Christian Liberation Party. President Banda reportedly stated that the Christian Liberation Party did not win any seats in an election before the breakup of the Nyasaland (now Malawi)-Rhodesia federation in 1963, indicating that the end of the federation made Malawi a single-party state ruled by the MCP (Ibid.).

Reference

BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 10 April 1992. "Malawi Banda Says Multi-Partyism is `Nonsense,' Bishops `Apologised.'" (NEXIS)

Attachments

Africa Confidential [London]. 22 May 1992. Vol. 33, No. 10. "Malawi: Never the Same Again." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

. 3 April 1992. Vol. 33, No. 7. "Malawi: Dealing in Democracy." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

. 20 March 1992. Vol. 33, No. 6. "Malawi: Breaking the Silence." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

. 20 December 1991. Vol. 32, No. 25. "Malawi: The Next Domino." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

. 3 September 1986. Vol. 27, No. 18. "Malawi: Playing With Fire." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

. 22 April 1981. Vol. 22, No. 9. "Malawi: Opposition Gets Together." Miramoor Publications Ltd.

BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 10 April 1992. "Malawi Banda Says Multi-Partyism is `Nonsense,' Bishops `Apologised.'" (NEXIS)

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