DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 17 | MALAWI Mutharika sets up election rerun 20th August 2024 The former President plans to stand on the success of his economic record and cash in on in the unpopularity of his successor Next year’s presidential elections are set to be a rerun of 2020, after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on 18 August endorsed former President Peter Muthari... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 13 | MALAWI No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo 20th June 2024 Most believe that the end of Martha Chizuma’s term of office effectively means the death of government prosecution of bribery Many Malawians feel the book has now closed on the campaign by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Martha Chizuma to bring dozens of Malawian and foreign businesspeople and p...
Vol 65 No 10 | MALAWI Veep graft case abandoned 9th May 2024 The corruption case against Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been abandoned on the order of President Lazarus Chakwera. Chilima was arrested in November 2022 over allegat...
Vol 65 No 9 | MALAWIUNITED STATES Chakwera furious at US visa ban 25th April 2024 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 c...
Vol 65 No 4 | MALAWI Generals persist with banned arms deal 15th February 2024 The army went ahead with a major arms purchase even after the government cancelled it and said all deals with Zuneth Sattar were over The government is in turmoil after its claims that all deals with the businessman Zuneth Sattar, who is accused of bribing dozens of top Malawian officials and politicians, had bee...
Vol 64 No 23 | MALAWI IMF devaluation demand shock 16th November 2023 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 ...
Vol 64 No 22 | MALAWI UK cops in court 2nd November 2023 Government law officers have been so slow to summon witnesses to appear in trials brought by the Anti-Corruption Bureau that witnesses from Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) ap...
Vol 64 No 19 | MALAWI Bribes case on the rocks 21st September 2023 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has decided not to prosecute government officials who may have taken bribes so long as they return them to the state, according to leaks to the med...
Vol 64 No 16 | MALAWI You can run and you can hide 3rd August 2023 Former National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose non-fatal shooting in 2013 blew the lid off the Cashgate scandal of wholesale plunder of the public purse by politicians, is rep...
Vol 64 No 12 | MALAWI Mutharika manoeuvres for a comeback 5th June 2023 So dire is the record of the incumbent that the opposition believes Peter Mutharika could be elected president again in 2025 The political situation is in such turmoil that the next contest to lead Malawi is already dominating talk in the capital. Ex-President Peter Mutharika is planning a comeback, acco...