Lazarus McCarthy 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...

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...

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...

Mutharika was opposed by the Tonse Alliance with the Malawi Congress Party's Lazarus Chakwera leading the ticket and the United Transformation Movement's Saulosi Chilima standing for vice-president...

The MCP's Lazarus Chakwera is criss-crossing the country with Chilima who left Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to form his own party the United Transformation Movement (UTM) but cannot constitutionally be removed from the vice-presidency by Mutharika...

On paper the DPP-UDF alliance looks nothing like as strong as that of Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Saulos Chilima and his United Transformation Movement (UTM) along with seven smaller parties...

The case has been in court since August after former Vice-President Saulos Chilima leader of the opposition United Transformation Movement (UTM) and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) candidate Lazarus Chakwera sought a nullification of the May results (AC Vol 60 No 17 No let-up in post-election war)...

Leader of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera was second with 35%...

Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera has filed a petition for the partial recount citing inflation of voter figures and results sheets altered with...