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)...

She subsequently left the country for four years only returning after striking a deal with Presidential sibling Peter Mutharika we reported at the time (AC Vol 59 No 9 Banda flies home)...

Ex-President Peter Mutharika has profited from the tragedy...

Ex-President Peter Mutharika is planning a comeback according to his allies in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...

The ECF had been negotiated by President Peter Mutharika two months before the Tonse Alliance came to power...

An April report by pollsters Afrobarometer found that 70% of Malawians believe corruption is worse under Chakwera than under his predecessor President Peter Mutharika whom Chakwera had dubbed 'prince of thieves' and whose administration was widely held to be riddled with corruption (AC Vol 58 No 24 Banda's Faustian pact)...

Chilima cannot run for a third term as a Vice-President – he served as President Peter Mutharika's Vice-President before leaving the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...

Nor has comment been spared on a 'deafening silence' from ex-President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) Atupele Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) and even Vice-President Saulosi Chilima's UTM...

The companies have been supplying the army and the police for several years with arms and ammunition anti-riot equipment and protective clothing the reports said including a $14 million deal for the army and the police to obtain eight water-cannon vehicles struck in 2018 during the presidency of Peter Mutharika...

Despite all this less than a year later in December 2015 President Peter Mutharika's then Attorney-General Kalekeni Kaphale cleared Sattar's companies of any involvement in the scandal and declared them to have had valid contracts...

Coping with Malawi's royal 'thievery' The beleaguered President Lazarus Chakwera when in opposition once called his predecessor Peter Mutharika 'prince of thieves'...

President Joyce Banda suffered from voters associating her with the Cashgate scandal and President Peter Mutharika had to cope with fall-out from the case of Zameer Karim a businessman who allegedly deposited 120 million kwacha ($150 000) into a party account controlled by the then president (AC Vol 59 No 14 Rationing corruption)...

Complaints about the rising cost of living are widespread and the shaky ruling coalition of his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of the mercurial Saulos Chilima formerly Vice-President under ex-President Peter Mutharika is failing to back him up...

Unlike him both his predecessors Peter Mutharika and Joyce Banda enjoyed honeymoon periods with the public in their first two years of office...

' Police round up DPP officials The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) – as well as detaining officials and advisors close to President Lazarus Chakwera – has been strongly focused on alleged corruption in the previous administration of President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...

A former Reserve Bank Governor who had expressed interest in succeeding Peter Mutharika as DPP President and running against Chakwera in 2025 he is also accused of misleading the IMF...

Civil society which found its voice so powerfully in the mass movement opposing President Peter Mutharika's government is stirring once more including influential churchmen...

As befits a devout evangelist and former pastor President Lazarus Chakwera promised to lead Malawians 'to Canaan' after winning last year's dramatic election a re-run of the previous poll cancelled by judges over fraud by ex-President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP – AC Vol 61 No 18 shaky start for the new broom)...