DISPATCHES
Rather than sack his ministers facing criminal charges President Lazarus Chakwera dismissed his entire cabinet on 24 January and promised to name a new one within 48 hours...
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Accusations of procurement corruption fraud and bribery are gripping the public and damaging the image of President Lazarus Chakwera a strong critic of his predecessors over graft...
Coping with Malawi's royal 'thievery' The beleaguered President Lazarus Chakwera when in opposition once called his predecessor Peter Mutharika 'prince of thieves'...
President Lazarus Chakwera's reshuffled cabinet pointedly snubs his Tonse Alliance coalition partners the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulosi Chilima and the People's Party (PP) of former President Joyce Banda...
Sixteen months after garnering an impressive electoral mandate President Lazarus Chakwera is on the back foot anxiously deflecting accusations that his administration is incompetent and corrupt...
' Police round up DPP officials The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) – as well as detaining officials and advisors close to President Lazarus Chakwera – has been strongly focused on alleged corruption in the previous administration of President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...
Although President Lazarus Chakwera swept into power 16 months ago promising new action against corruption his prosecutors are focused on the crimes of the previous administration and closing the book on Cashgate is no more a priority than it was under the two previous presidents...
On 27 September Blair flew in a top-of-the-range 16-seat Falcon 7X business jet chartered from Volkswagen Air Services a subsidiary of the German car-maker to Dakar where he met President Macky Sall before flying on the 28th to Lilongwe where he met President Lazarus Chakwera...
President Lazarus Chakwera has had a torrid month...
As befits a devout evangelist and former pastor President Lazarus Chakwera promised to lead Malawians 'to Canaan' after winning last year's dramatic election a re-run of the previous poll cancelled by judges over fraud by ex-President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP – AC Vol 61 No 18 shaky start for the new broom)...
Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera made a fulsome eulogy on Magufuli's regional role as did Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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President Lazarus Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party won a narrow victory over its coalition partner the United Transformation Movement in the bitterly contested Karonga Central by-election on 10 November...