Although President Lazarus Chakwera swept into power 16 months ago promising new action against corruption his prosecutors are focused on the crimes of the previous administration and closing the book on Cashgate is no more a priority than it was under the two previous presidents...
On 27 September Blair flew in a top-of-the-range 16-seat Falcon 7X business jet chartered from Volkswagen Air Services a subsidiary of the German car-maker to Dakar where he met President Macky Sall before flying on the 28th to Lilongwe where he met President Lazarus Chakwera...
President Lazarus Chakwera has had a torrid month...
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)...
Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera made a fulsome eulogy on Magufuli's regional role as did Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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President Lazarus Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party won a narrow victory over its coalition partner the United Transformation Movement in the bitterly contested Karonga Central by-election on 10 November...
The Tonse Alliance partners who wrested power from President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive party so convincingly in June in are now in a fight that is putting at risk the four-month-old administration of President Lazarus Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulos Chilima (AC Vol 61 No 18 A shaky start for the new broom)...
' The Tony Blair Institute told Africa Confidential it 'is in early stage discussions to scope support it might provide in future to the Government of President Lazarus Chakwera'...
The first sixty days of office have not been kind to President Lazarus Chakwera...
In neighbouring Malawi newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera has publicly backed the #Zimbabweanlivesmatter campaign...
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Both the sinecures and concrete political benefits have arrived: the appointment of KANU's Samuel Poghisio as Senate Majority Leader; various state appointments and more ostentatiously Gideon Moi's assignment to represent President Kenyatta at new Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera's inauguration...