Joyce Banda Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 29 May 2012 18:01:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Joyce Banda Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Malawi Elects A New President https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/05/29/2-malawi-elects-new-president/ Wed, 30 May 2012 01:00:55 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6658 Although there are about as many women in the world as men, there is a much larger number of men who are heads-of-state.

The only female head-of-state Canada has had, out of 22 in Canadian history, was Kim Campbell. She was prime minister for less than a year, in 1993.

In Africa last month, Joyce Banda became just the third female head-of-state in modern African history.

Banda took over for President Bingu Wa Mutharika in Malawi, who died of a heart attack in early April.

Until then, Banda had been Malawi’s vice-president, elected in 2005.

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