It said the recordings 'demonstrate[s] Sattar's influence over and corruption of a number of senior public figures in Malawi including the Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima the Chief of Staff Prince Harvey Kapondamgaga the Malawian Solicitor General Reyneck Matemba the Inspector General of Malawi Police Service George Kainja a Malawi Police Service Lawyer: Mwambi Kaluba and the Chairperson of the PPDA [Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority] John Suzi Banda...
Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima's alliance was always fragile as they represent an older establishment on one side and a younger cohort eager for radical change on the other...
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 MCP's main partner in the ruling Tonse Alliance Vice-President Saulosi Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM) also suddenly acquired brand-new vehicles...
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...
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...
There are unconfirmed reports that some members of the ruling Tonse Alliance especially from the United Transformation Movement of Saulos Chilima are also in police sights...
Suspicion that members of the new government are protecting those implicated in the Cashgate affair has been reinforced since Kasambara publicly joined Vice-President Saulos Chilima's political party the United Transformation Movement (UTM)...
Chihana is the leader of the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) a junior partner in the governing Tonse Alliance with Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulos Chilima...
The government is vulnerable to accusations of corruption – the very thing the Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) promised to root out in its coalition with Vice-President Saulos Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM – AC Vol 61 No 14 Lazarus rising)...
The contest symbolised tensions in the governing alliance although Chakwera and his UTM counterpart Vice-President Saulos Chilima have been playing down their differences (AC Vol 61 No 23 Stress test for the Tonse Alliance)...
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)...