MALAWI: GUERRILLA WARFARE CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRIME MINISTER BANDA APPARENTLY HAS BEGUN

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• Publication Date: February 16, 1965

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3. Malawi: Guerrilla warfare campaign to oust
Prime Minister Banda apparently has begun.
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Malawi: A guerrilla warfare campaign to over-
throw Prime Minister Banda apparently has begun.
During the night of 12 February,, anti-Banda
rebels led by former minister of education Chipembere
attacked two police posts at Fort Johnston in south-.
eastern Malawi, cut communications, and captured
arms and vehicles before fleeing back into the hills.
Chipembere is one of six ex-Ministers seeking to oust
Banda who fired them last fall.
The ex-ministers fell out with Banda for various
reasons, but mainly because he would not share author-
ity with them and refused to adopt a more neutralist
foreign policy. In particular they criticized Banda
for his close and friendly relations with the Portuguese
in neighboring Mozambique. Five of the ex-ministers
have been living in Tanzania, while 'Chipembere�their
ostensible leader--has stayed in Malawi, eluding in-
tensive efforts to capture him.
Banda appears to have the advantage with a 2, 800-
man police force and an 800-man army, both under
British officers. The rebels, however, can probably
keep a-terrorist campaign going for some time, and
they may obtain help fro,m.Tanzania and from Mozam-
bique nationalists.
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