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 corruption allegations regarding Malawian-born British citizen Zuneth Sattar provoking an outburst from President Lazarus Chakwera...
Joint investigationIt was in June 2022 that President Lazarus Chakwera announced to the public that all contracts with Sattar had been cancelled although some had been officially stopped several months before...
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 his departure...
It has since been claimed that the fertiliser cannot be supplied which is another embarrassment for President Lazarus Chakwera...
President Lazarus Chakwera's administration is mired in allegations of corruption and nepotism while his Vice-President Saulos Chilima whose executive powers were removed after he was charged with accepting bribes has all but cut relations with him...
Activists block water contract loan President Lazarus Chakwera is facing reputational trouble over the attempt to give state backing to a 105 billion kwacha loan (US$103 million) to Khato Civils whose owner Simbi Phiri is a friend and financier of the head of state...
President Lazarus Chakwera has distanced himself from the campaign against Chizuma but his close colleagues continue to harass her relentlessly – to the extent that the affair could mean foreign governments start cutting aid...
Donors signal their outrage A delegation of western ambassadors held a three-hour meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera at State House on 3 February over the government's obsession with stopping Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma from investigating high-level corruption...
President Lazarus Chakwera has promised to address the concerns of the foreign governments...
Nobody was surprised to see President Lazarus Chakwera's motorcade loudly booed as it swooped past motorists languishing in long queues for scarce petrol on the weekend of 3-4 November...
President Lazarus Chakwera has replaced Lobin Lowe as agriculture minister with the Lands Minister Sam Kawale but strongly denied that K30bn was lost...
President Lazarus Chakwera has reacted to the Anti-Corruption Bureau report that he demanded to be produced within three weeks by sacking key officials but also by attacking the ACB...
The case of businessman Zuneth Sattar who is being jointly investigated by Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) for alleged bribery over 10 years is ratcheting up pressure on President Lazarus Chakwera's beleaguered government in Lilongwe...
President Lazarus Chakwera is attracting widespread public criticism for excessive international travel while the economy festers – as does public opinion of the government – and the gap between the country's top two elected officials and their political parties increases...
