While former President Peter Mutharika finally packed his bags and sought solace at an official government holiday residence on Lake Malawi newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera faces the same challenges that have foxed so many of his predecessors...
UTM Secretary-General Patricia Kaliati a veteran political warhorse who was in the cabinets of Bakili Muluzi Bingu wa Mutharika and Peter Mutharika is expecting to be appointed we hear (AC Vol 60 No 5 War of the running mates)...
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Malawi's rerun presidential election on 23 June went off relatively peacefully and early returns as Africa Confidential went to press indicate that President Peter Mutharika has lost the election...
Ansah was the focus of the opposition's fury ever since she declared victory for President Peter Mutharika in the May 2019 election which was annulled by the Constitutional Court on 3 February (AC Vol 60 No 11 Mutharika's narrow win & Vol 61 No 3 Shock ruling resets poll)...
The new presidential election mandated by the Constitutional Court in February was always going to be bad news for President Peter Mutharika especially with the new requirement that the winner take over half of the popular vote...
It is a body blow to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) President Peter Mutharika who won the 21 May polls by 159 000 votes (AC Vol 60 No 11 Mutharika's narrow win)...
Lacking evidenceMost observers believe Chilima is hoping that the mass protests against President Peter Mutharika by the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) would be enough to persuade the government to hold fresh elections...
Malawi's defeated oppositionists are taking different attitudes to May's disputed presidential polls and that appears to be playing into newly re-elected President Peter Mutharika's hands (AC Vol 60 No 11 Mutharika's narrow win)...
After a bitter though largely policy-free campaign in which the main candidates jockeyed for ethnically advantageous alliances while flinging accusations at each other the High Court finally awarded victory to President Peter Mutharika on 27 May (AC Vol 60 No 9 Campaign plumbs the depths)...
The result of the 21 May general election is now anybody's guess as President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic People's Party (DPP) and his main rival Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) go into the final weeks of campaigning with all guns blazing...
Former President Joyce Banda has withdrawn from the presidential race and she may have effectively taken President Peter Mutharika out of the contest too...
