UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI (UNIMA) DELINKING ACCOMPLISHED
March 1st, 2021
The delinking of Malawi’s oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Malawi (UNIMA) into three separate universities has been accomplished, 11 years after former President Bingu wa Mutharika mooted the idea to UNIMA Council in 2009.
Mutharika only managed to delink Bunda College in 2011 to create Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) before his death in 2012 and his successor President Joyce Banda shelved the process. But another past President Peter Mutharika, who succeeded Banda, rekindled the idea, which the current ...
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