Malawi’s top lawyer has come out fighting for President Peter Mutharika. Attorney General Frank Mbeta insists the President was perfectly entitled to hold back the Mid-Year Budget Review meeting, and that anyone calling it unconstitutional has got the law wrong. Mbeta says the dates for Parliament are only set after consultation between the President and […]
Former Court of Appeal judge Dunstan Mwaungulu has questioned the Attorney General’s intervention in a court case involving Parliament, arguing that the dispute exposes deeper tensions over institutional independence. The row centres on public disagreement between the Attorney General and Speaker of the National Assembly, Sameer Suleman, over who should represent Parliament in proceedings where […]
A legal row has erupted over who should represent Speaker of Parliament Sameer Suleman and the National Assembly in a High Court case challenging plans to establish 12 parliamentary committees. Nicholls & Brookes, the law firm appointed by the Parliamentary Service Commission to represent the Speaker and Parliament, has asked the High Court to set […]
This is a constitutional question, not a political controversy. Justice is a delicate balance. In a constitutional democracy such as Malawi, that balance must never be determined by the identity, political influence or public standing of those who appear before the courts. It must be guided by the Constitution and the law. Malawi is once […]
There is a certain type of constitutional farce that only Malawi can stage with complete seriousness. The actors are familiar: a Speaker determined to defend Parliament’s authority, an Attorney General convinced he is defending the law, and a judiciary left to untangle a dispute that perhaps ought never to have reached this point. The latest […]
The Office of the Speaker of Parliament has disclosed that it was never consulted before Attorney General Frank Mbeta took over a judicial review case from private lawyer Bright Theu concerning the controversial establishment of parliamentary joint committees. The Speaker’s Office said it is aware that the Attorney General assumed control of the matter, but […]
Speaker’s court fight takes new Attorney General Frank Mbeta has joined the High Court battle over Parliament’s 12 committees as an interested party, a case in which he was originally expected to stand by the Speaker. Speaker Sameer Suleman is challenging an injunction obtained by citizen Austin Mkoka, which blocks the formation of the committees […]
Frank Mbeta spent years in court representing plastic manufacturers opposed to Malawi’s thin-plastics ban. As attorney general, he is now responsible for defending the very regulations he once sought to overturn. That history alone proves nothing improper – but it raises questions about institutional safeguards that Malawi has yet to answer. The long-running battle over […]
A row has erupted in Malawi’s online political sphere after veteran journalist Dickson Kashoti accused social media whistleblower Alexious Kamangila of sitting on information about the network behind the abduction of British national Nusrat Osman — and of using unfounded rumour to attack Attorney General Frank Mbeta. In a Facebook post, Kashoti alleged that Kamangila […]
The suspended chief executive of Blantyre Water Board has suffered a fresh legal blow after the High Court stripped him of the injunction that had been keeping him in his job. Judge Allan Muhome ruled against Yeremia Chihana this morning, granting an urgent application by Attorney General Frank Mbeta to discharge the stay and injunction […]
The High Court of Malawi in Lilongwe has dismissed a case in which Senior Counsel Kamudoni Nyasulu and a group of senior lawyers challenged the termination of their consultancy agreement with government, as well as the constitutionality of Fostino Maele’s appointment as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Justice Anneline Kanthambi’s ruling means the applicants’ request […]
A wave of disinformation and what appears to be a coordinated smear campaign has swept across social media, falsely implicating Finance Minister Joseph Mwanamvekha and Attorney General Frank Mbeta in the ongoing Amaryllis Hotel scandal — despite investigators repeatedly confirming that neither man had any hand in the tainted money at the centre of the […]
Attorney General Frank Mbeta has launched an appeal against a High Court ruling in the Malawi Electoral Commission relocation saga, arguing that the court determined a key government application without giving the State a chance to be heard. The appeal, filed by the AG’s Chambers on behalf of the Chief Secretary to Government and the […]
A staggering K1.1 trillion damages claim brought by the defunct Finance Bank of Malawi (FBM) came under intense scrutiny in Blantyre today, as Attorney General Frank Mbeta subjected the bank’s key financial witness to a gruelling cross-examination before High Court and Supreme Court Assistant Registrar Ibrahim Hussein. The high-stakes assessment centres on FBM’s colossal compensation […]
There is a certain grim comedy to the announcement, made almost in passing by the Attorney General, that every single candidate interviewed for the post of Director General of Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau had failed. Not most. Not some, pending further review. All of them. The search must now begin again — readvertised, reshortlisted, re-interviewed — […]
Malawi’s Government and Prima Fuels Limited have been given the green light by the High Court’s Commercial Division in Lilongwe to recover fuel supply refunds owed by TotalEnergies Marketing Limited, covering a six-year period from 10 July 2013 to 11 July 2019, after the court found the company had breached a fuel supply agreement. The […]
Attorney General Frank Faroul Mbeta has thrown his weight behind the Malawi Police Service’s investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), delivering a legal opinion that directly undermines the commission’s attempts to delay the probe. In a formal advisory to the Inspector General of Police dated 29 July 2026, seen […]
Malawi’s decision to halt payments on more than 1,000 government contracts and subject them to a forensic review marks one of the most sweeping interventions in public procurement oversight in recent memory. It is a move that speaks both to the scale of concern within Capital Hill and to the fragility of the systems meant […]