{"id":8455,"date":"2012-04-05T22:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2012-04-05T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:32:26","slug":"malawi-president-bingu-wa-mutharika-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/05\/malawi-president-bingu-wa-mutharika-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8464\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rip_BINGU-WA-MUTHARIKA.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rip_BINGU-WA-MUTHARIKA.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"rip_BINGU-WA-MUTHARIKA\" width=\"338\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8464\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rest in Peace Bingu Wa Mutharika<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died<\/strong> after doctors at Kamuzu Central Hospital failed to resuscitate him when he suffered a cardiac arrest earlier on Thursday 5th April 2012.  Even though the President&#8217;s cabinet continues its aggressive ploy aimed at holding on to power at all cost by claiming that The President is going through treatment in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived at <strong>Kamuzu Central hospital<\/strong>, the <strong>78 year old Malawi President<\/strong> was already in a coma and medics tried to resuscitate him immediately.  \u201cThe President has died,\u201d said a top government official who chose to stay anonymous.  First Lady Callista, his brother Peter and three of Mutharika&#8217;s four children were at the hospital with State House Chief of Staff Edward Sawerengera.  His body was being taken to South Africa  for further postmortem and preparation for burial.<\/p>\n<p>The news has inevitably led speculations about Malawi&#8217;s political future but the Constitution says Vice President takes over until the next elections.  Section 83(4) of the Constitution simply reads \u201cwhenever there is a vacancy in the office of President, the First Vice-President shall assume that office for the remainder of the term and shall appoint another person to serve as First Vice-President for the remainder of the term.  In this case the Vice President Joyce Banda fell out with Mutharika in 2010 and was thrown out of the ruling Democratic People&#8217;s Party, raising speculation that the ruling elite could resist her following the decisions of the <strong>Late President Bingu wa Mutharika.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after doctors at Kamuzu Central Hospital failed to resuscitate him when he suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[525,802,526],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bingu","tag-death","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}