Malawi 's ex-president [START_ENT] Banda [END_ENT] says he 's feeling well .  BLANTYRE 1996-08-24  Malawi 's frail former president , Kamuzu Banda , said on Saturday in a rare public interview that he was feeling well despite his advanced years .  " I feel all right and I eat everything that is put on the table .  And that means I am all right , " he told reporters invited to his home .  Banda , a vegetarian teetotaller believed to be 97 , walked unaided but supporting himself on a walking stick .  He clutched a fly whisk which for a long time symbolised his obsession with power .  His health was the subject of much recent speculation .  Malawi 's undisputed ruler for three decades , he lost power in the first all-party elections in 1994 .  He spent a year under house arrest and was tried but acquitted last year on charges of ordering the murder of four opponents in 1983 .
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says he 's feeling well .  BLANTYRE 1996-08-24  Malawi 's frail former president , Kamuzu Banda , said on Saturday in a rare public interview that he was feeling well despite his advanced years .  " I feel all right and I eat everything that is put on the table .  And that means I am all right , " he told reporters invited to his home .  Banda , a vegetarian teetotaller believed to be 97 , walked unaided but supporting himself on a walking stick .  He clutched a fly whisk which for a long time symbolised his obsession with power .  His health was the subject of much recent speculation .  Malawi 's undisputed ruler for three decades , he lost power in the first all-party elections in 1994 .  He spent a year under house arrest and was tried but acquitted last year on charges of ordering the murder of four opponents in 1983 .
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