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Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera

Date of Birth: 5 April 1955
Place of Birth: Lilongwe, Malawi


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Anti-corruption furore goes global

President Lazarus Chakwera has distanced himself from the campaign against Chizuma but his close colleagues continue to harass her relentlessly – to the extent that the affair could mean foreign governments start cutting aid...

Donors signal their outrage A delegation of western ambassadors held a three-hour meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera at State House on 3 February over the government's obsession with stopping Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma from investigating high-level corruption...

President Lazarus Chakwera has promised to address the concerns of the foreign governments...


Chakwera's travels and travails

Nobody was surprised to see President Lazarus Chakwera's motorcade loudly booed as it swooped past motorists languishing in long queues for scarce petrol on the weekend of 3-4 November...

President Lazarus Chakwera has replaced Lobin Lowe as agriculture minister with the Lands Minister Sam Kawale but strongly denied that K30bn was lost...


Chakwera sacks and attacks

President Lazarus Chakwera has reacted to the Anti-Corruption Bureau report that he demanded to be produced within three weeks by sacking key officials but also by attacking the ACB...


Bribery accusations engulf government

The case of businessman Zuneth Sattar who is being jointly investigated by Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) for alleged bribery over 10 years is ratcheting up pressure on President Lazarus Chakwera's beleaguered government in Lilongwe...


Turmoil at the top deepens

President Lazarus Chakwera is attracting widespread public criticism for excessive international travel while the economy festers – as does public opinion of the government – and the gap between the country's top two elected officials and their political parties increases...


Name or blame

President Lazarus Chakwera has responded to the crisis caused by the British government's naming of officials in his administration as suspected of corruption by demanding action within 21 days (AC Vol 63 No 12 Bribery accusations engulf government)...


Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera

Accusations of procurement corruption fraud and bribery are gripping the public and damaging the image of President Lazarus Chakwera a strong critic of his predecessors over graft...

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


Chakwera tightens grip

President Lazarus Chakwera's reshuffled cabinet pointedly snubs his Tonse Alliance coalition partners the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulosi Chilima and the People's Party (PP) of former President Joyce Banda...


President's situation is no joke

Sixteen months after garnering an impressive electoral mandate President Lazarus Chakwera is on the back foot anxiously deflecting accusations that his administration is incompetent and corrupt...

' 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)...


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