A shadowy pressure group has emerged from within Malawi’s opposition Congress Party with a single, explosive mission: to stop former president Lazarus Chakwera rewriting the rulebook in a desperate bid to cling to power. The group, which has adopted the codename ‘Mbembembe’, is understood to be plotting a fierce campaign against any attempt by Chakwera […]
Malawi’s main opposition party has redrawn its internal political geography, in a restructuring exercise that signals its determination to rebuild from the ground up after last year’s bruising electoral defeat. The Malawi Congress Party’s national executive committee, meeting in Lilongwe, pressed ahead with plans to split both the Southern and Central Regions into three zones […]
There was a conspicuous absence at the Malawi Congress Party’s national executive committee meeting in Lilongwe on Wednesday — not of any person, but of a single word: succession. For all the closed doors and careful stage-management at the party’s City Centre headquarters, the one issue dominating whispered conversations among MCP members — the future […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) descended into chaos today as a crunch leadership meeting exploded into a bitter row over former president Lazarus Chakwera’s audacious attempt to rewrite party rules and extend his grip on power. Tempers reportedly flared behind closed doors at the party’s Lilongwe headquarters as senior figures clashed over Chakwera’s controversial […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party is bracing for a dramatic showdown this Wednesday, with senior officials set to gather in Lilongwe for a crunch National Executive Committee meeting that could determine the party’s entire future direction. At the heart of the explosive agenda: how to rebuild the battered party through regional elections, and crucially, how […]
Malawi’s opposition has launched a stinging attack on the parliamentary inquiry investigating the fatal Chikangawa plane crash, accusing organisers of politicising the process after reports emerged that former President Lazarus Chakwera and former Minister of Information and Digitalisation Moses Kunkuyu could be summoned to testify. The attack came in a memorandum dated 31 August 2026, […]
Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera has embarked on an open-door initiative aimed at engaging with party members, political veterans and other key figures, in what the party describes as a deliberate strategy to reclaim power in 2030. The MCP’s Publicity Secretary, Jessie Kabwira, confirmed the initiative in an interview on Friday, shortly after Chakwera […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and the country’s sixth president, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, held a two-hour meeting with party secretary general Richard Chimwendo Banda at MCP headquarters in Lilongwe, according to a statement issued by the party. The engagement, described by MCP as being in the spirit of strengthening and building the party, focused […]
There is a version of events from 10 June 2024 that Malawians have been asked to accept for over a year: that a plane went missing, that confusion reigned, that a government did its best amid the chaos of an unfolding tragedy. Testimony now emerging before Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating the Chikangawa crash suggests […]
Malawi’s political temperature spiked at the start if the week after Leonard Chimbanga, Malawi’s diplomat‑designate to South Africa, unleashed a blistering attack on the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) for floating the idea of Lazarus Chakwera contesting again in the 2030 elections. Chimbanga, never one to mince words, dismissed the proposal as “wishful thinking,” arguing that […]
Malawi’s Political Science Association has warned that grassroots endorsements pushing Lazarus Chakwera to stand again as the Malawi Congress Party’s presidential candidate in 2030 risk sidelining other capable figures within the party, potentially undermining internal democracy before the race has even properly begun. The Association’s spokesperson, Mavuto Bamusi, issued the caution after MCP’s District Chairperson […]
Former president Lazarus Chakwera has been handed a rousing show of support from grassroots Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials, with chants of “Ayimenso!” — Chichewa for “let him rise again!” — ringing out as the party’s District Chairperson for Kasungu East, Chisomo Mbembeza, publicly endorsed him as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2030 election. […]
Former president Lazarus Chakwera used an address to Christian delegates at the CCAP Livingstonia Synod’s annual conference in Kasungu to signal his party’s ambitions for a return to power, telling the gathering that the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) remained a viable political force despite recent setbacks. Speaking at Kamuzu Academy, Chakwera blended religious and political […]
Explosive High Court injunction bars self-styled “Veterans” group, sponsored by former President himself, from suspending secretary general or locking party HQ Malawi’s High Court has dramatically intervened in an escalating internal war engulfing the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), granting an injunction that stops a rogue faction — allegedly organised and sponsored by party leader Lazarus […]
Former Malawi Ambassador to the UK, Dr Thomas Bisika, has made a high‑profile courtesy call on former President Lazarus Chakwera — a meeting that comes just days after wrapping up his diplomatic tour in London. Bisika, who recently concluded his tenure as Malawi’s High Commissioner in London, arrived to personally thank Chakwera for entrusting him […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has been thrown into fresh turmoil as senior figures, long‑time loyalists and parliamentary leaders intensify pressure on Lazarus Chakwera to step aside and allow a new leader to take the party into the 2030 General Election. Chakwera, who lost the 2025 presidential race to Democratic Progressive Party leader Peter Mutharika, […]
An independent MP has launched a blistering assault on former President Lazarus Chakwera, branding him “indecisive” and “street-dumb” as MCP loyalists ramp up efforts to rehabilitate his image ahead of a potential 2030 comeback bid. MP Ayuba James took to social media on Monday to demolish attempts by party faithful to portray Chakwera as a […]
Lilongwe Nyanja MP Steve Baba Malondera has ignited a political firestorm after launching a blistering attack on senior figures within the Malawi Congress Party, insisting former President Lazarus Chakwera was “a good leader undone by those around him.” Speaking at a packed community gathering in Malembo, Malondera didn’t hold back, laying the blame for MCP’s […]