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...
Complaints about the rising cost of living are widespread and the shaky ruling coalition of his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of the mercurial Saulos Chilima formerly Vice-President under ex-President Peter Mutharika is failing to back him up...
There are unconfirmed reports that some members of the ruling Tonse Alliance especially from the United Transformation Movement of Saulos Chilima are also in police sights...
Suspicion that members of the new government are protecting those implicated in the Cashgate affair has been reinforced since Kasambara publicly joined Vice-President Saulos Chilima's political party the United Transformation Movement (UTM)...
Chihana is the leader of the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) a junior partner in the governing Tonse Alliance with Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulos Chilima...
The government is vulnerable to accusations of corruption – the very thing the Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) promised to root out in its coalition with Vice-President Saulos Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM – AC Vol 61 No 14 Lazarus rising)...
The contest symbolised tensions in the governing alliance although Chakwera and his UTM counterpart Vice-President Saulos Chilima have been playing down their differences (AC Vol 61 No 23 Stress test for the Tonse Alliance)...
The Tonse Alliance partners who wrested power from President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive party so convincingly in June in are now in a fight that is putting at risk the four-month-old administration of President Lazarus Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulos Chilima (AC Vol 61 No 18 A shaky start for the new broom)...
Mutharika had become increasingly unpopular and weighed down with accusations of corruption while Chakwera and his running mate Saulos Chilima offered an alternative more inclusive and honestly run Malawi...
State House insiders say that the President is thinking ahead to the 2025 election and has set up a 11-strong intelligence unit to monitor the loyalty and activities of ministers government officials and his Tonse Alliance partner Saulos Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM)...
His fragile coalition with Vice-President Saulos Chilima is beset already not only with the challenges of the coronavirus but also with squaring the insistent demands of those who helped him to victory with his ringing pledge to eradicate corruption and bad government...
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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...
