He was close to Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera until Chakwera lost the election to Peter Mutharika in 2025 after which Chivayo donated $1m to Mutharika's wife's charity and bought luxury cars for his son and other Malawian politicians...
That resulted in a second election that saw Mutharika lose to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera in 2020 (AC Vol 61 No 14 Lazarus rising)...
Former Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga and former Secretary to the President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba both senior figures under Mutharika's predecessor Lazarus Chakwera have been summoned to testify over their roles in the earlier stages of the deal...
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Vol 67 No 8 |
- MALAWI
- TANZANIA
Five months after opposition to the election of Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan with 98% of the vote as President on 29 October escalated into deadly street clashes Malawi's former president Lazarus Chakwera has arrived in Dar es Salaam in a belated effort to mediate...
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MalawiThis will be the first full year of Peter Mutharika's return to the Presidency in Malawi after winning the September 2025 election and Lazarus Chakwera conceding defeat...
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Their victory reflects widespread frustration at Malawi's descent into dysfunction and economic chaos under President Lazarus Chakwera over the past five years whose Malawi Congress Party was seen as arrogant corrupt and prone to ethnic favouritism (AC Vol 66 No 12 Chakwera in trouble as election looms)...
Many Malawians watched in amusement as Mumba spoke at press conferences seen as increasingly desperate (AC Vol 66 No 18 Lazarus Chakwera fights to survive)...
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President Lazarus Chakwera and his predecessor Peter Mutharika have been rebuked by the head of the Malawi Electoral Commission after both claimed they had won the 16 September elections...
The results are likely to put the country on a knife-edge – opinion polls suggested that no candidate was likely to obtain the 50% plus one needed to avoid a second round run off (AC Vol 66 No 18 Lazarus Chakwera fights to survive)...
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Malawians go to the polls on 16 September in an election that could make President Lazarus Chakwera the third one-term president in the past 11 years (AC Vol 66 No 12 Chakwera in trouble as election looms)...
The breach between the International Monetary Fund and the government over the ending of the US$175 million Extended Credit Facility (ECF) halfway through its economic reform programme could work against President Lazarus Chakwera's chances of success in the general election in September...
The officials named in the charges against Sattar and by the US State Department as recipients of the bribes include: Chilima President Lazarus Chakwera's chief of staff Prince Harvey Kapondamgaga (still serving) the Inspector-General of Police George Kainja lawyer for the Malawi police Mwambi Kaluba Chizuma's predecessor at the ACB Reyneck Matemba public procurement boss John Suzi Banda Dan Kuwali head of legal at the Malawi Defence Force (still serving) and three others...
