The incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera who was elected in 2020 after the Constitutional Court nullified his predecessor Peter Mutharika's 2019 win faces Mutharika again as well as former President Joyce Banda who claims Mutharika won fraudulently against her in 2014 (AC Vol 61 No 3 Shock ruling resets poll)...
Many suspect it is in reality designed to raise money for President Lazarus Chakwera's re-election campaign...
Many of Vice-President Saulos Chilima's supporters have blamed President Lazarus Chakwera for the crash that claimed the lives of Chilima and eight others in a Malawi Defence Forces twin-engined Dornier 228 on 10 June (AC Vol 65 No 13 No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo)...
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Mutharika will be 85 on polling day but is planning to run on his government's economic record and cash in on the unpopularity of his successor President Lazarus Chakwera...
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President Lazarus Chakwera could well become collateral damage of that superstition with 14 months to go to the general election...
The corruption case against Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been abandoned on the order of President Lazarus Chakwera...
The United States government has slapped a visa ban on four former senior Malawi government officials including the former Head of the Malawi Police Service George Kainja over corruption allegations regarding Malawian-born British citizen Zuneth Sattar provoking an outburst from President Lazarus Chakwera...
Joint investigationIt was in June 2022 that President Lazarus Chakwera announced to the public that all contracts with Sattar had been cancelled although some had been officially stopped several months before...
President Lazarus Chakwera was accused of running away when he left the country on 8 November for Saudi Arabia despite knowing that the kwacha would be devalued by 44% hours after his departure...
It has since been claimed that the fertiliser cannot be supplied which is another embarrassment for President Lazarus Chakwera...
President Lazarus Chakwera's administration is mired in allegations of corruption and nepotism while his Vice-President Saulos Chilima whose executive powers were removed after he was charged with accepting bribes has all but cut relations with him...
Activists block water contract loan President Lazarus Chakwera is facing reputational trouble over the attempt to give state backing to a 105 billion kwacha loan (US$103 million) to Khato Civils whose owner Simbi Phiri is a friend and financier of the head of state...