Vol 66 No 1 | MALAWIAFRICA IN 2025 Nervy start to election season 10th January 2025 An unpredictable battle between ex-presidents looms in September as the last nail is driven into the coffin of the Anti-Corruption Bureau Malawi’s electoral process got off to an uncertain start as the opposition demanded the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission chair Judge Annabel Mtalimanja and took to the streets...
Vol 65 No 19 | MALAWI Three old hats in the presidential ring 18th September 2024 Next year’s election will see two previous presidents take on an incumbent still struggling to make his mark amid a sea of scandal and a tanking economy In less than a year, Malawians go to the polls for the eighth time since the return of multi-party elections in 1994 but this time, the choice is...
Vol 65 No 19 | MALAWI VP crash pilots ‘lost’ 19th September 2024 Many of Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s supporters have blamed President Lazarus Chakwera for the crash that claimed the lives of Chilima and eight others in a Malawi Defence Forces...
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 Mutharika as... 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...
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 allegations that he...
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...
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,...
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...
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) appeared...