Everton Chimulirenji remains in Cabinet of President Peter Mutharika as Minister responsible for Disaster Management Affairs following Constitution Court (ConCourt) order on Monday reinstated Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima as Vice-President after nullifying the results of the presidential elections held on May 21 2019—citing evidence of widespread irregularities. Chilima, who is UTM Party president and was […]
Malawian vice-president Everton Chimulirenji has warned that President Peter Mutharika will not hesitate to sack or prosecute any of his ministers implicated in corruption. Chimulirenji was speaking at Sunbird Nkopola Lodge in the eastern lakeshore tourism district of Mangochi on Monday at an orientation workshop for the cabinet. “As ministers and deputy ministers, you are […]
A youth body has launched a blistering attack on President Peter Mutharika for hiring a 24-member cabinet excluding the youth. Charles Kajoloweka of Youth Decide said all the 24 members of the cabinet are above 35-years-old. “We are very disappointed with the cabinet. In this era, we expected a cabinet with youth representation. After all, […]
President Peter Mutharika’s cabinet was on Thursday sworn in at the Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe with a call for ministers to work towards achieving results by doing things unusual in order to bring the much needed change. The president said he expects his Cabinet to be of high performance hence the need for them to […]
Political analysts say President Peter Mutharika’s newly hired 24-member cabinet will have no impact as it is the same old political faces dominating it. Mutharika announced the new cabinet on Wednesday with two members from the central region, three from the north and 13 from the south. George Phiri, a political analyst at the University […]
Political observers have noted that there is no person from Yao tribe as full ministers in the new 24-member cabinet in which President Peter Mutharika has included five women – two ministers and three deputies – with 15 new faces comprising 10 full ministers and five deputies. The new cabinet has 18 full ministers and […]
Always a Cabinet aims to balance two critical things: push government policy and maintain political survival. You need technical gearboxes to move critical ministries such as finance, health, education, agriculture and tourism with an aim of achieving a status of a developmental state. Besides that, you need political clout to maneuver the political ground with a […]
President Peter Mutharika has named his 29-member cabinet, the first in his second five-year term of office, nearly a month after the controversial elections that brought him to office. Mutharika, who was sworn in on May 28 and inaugurated on May 31 following his declared victory in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, has appointed his former […]
President Peter Mutharika has finalised organising the composition of the Executive and is set to announce the new Cabinet, the first in his second five-year term of office. Nyasa Times understands that Mutharika, sworn in on May 28 and inaugurated on May 31 following his declared victory in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, has finalised […]
President Peter Mutharika has promised to maintain a lean cabinet of 20 members and that he will announce it before Parliament opens on June 21, saying he is meanwhile scrutinising resumes of different possible personnel to be considered for cabinet portfolios. “I am currently working on the cabinet which will be a representative of all […]
Malawi is to have a new Cabinet by June 21, President Peter Mutharika has promised and that he will maintain 20 as the number of his ministers. Mutharika was speaking at Njamba Freedom park in Blantyre on Sunday during his victory thank you rally for the Southern Region . He called those aspiring to be […]
Political experts have tipped the re-elected President Peter Mutharika to hire a result oriented Cabinet, saying ministers in the past five years had some flaws. George Phiri, a political scientist at Livingstonia University said Mutharika did not perform to the expectations of most Malawians mainly due to his Cabinet. “I would advise him to hire […]
Former Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi, who is also the presidential torchbearer for the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Tuesday May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections has bid farewell to colleagues at the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the rest of the Malawians after serving as Minister for five years in the President Peter Mutharika’s […]
Two of the country’s well-known political analysts have hailed President Peter Mutharika for maintaining a lean Cabinet since he took over the reins of power five years ago, saying the stint has saved Malawi’s fragile economy billions of taxpayers’ resources. Mutharika, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Section 95 (2) of the […]
The decision by the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal that has reversed a High Court order that sought to compel President Peter Mutharika to fire his then Cabinet minister George Chaponda in connection with a controversial maize import deal in 2017 is inorder, a local daily has stated in an editorial urging some civil society […]
Women Lawyers Association have threatened redress “elsewhere” if President Peter Mutharika fails to respond to their petition of the firing of Deputy Minister of Homeland Charles Mchacha and other gender issues within a ‘reasonable time.’ Women Lawyers Association’s research and advocacy coordinator Dr. Benedetta Malunga said Mutharika did not address a single concern of the […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit back at critics who say his newly hired Cabinet is gender insensitive, saying the private sector has less women in decision making positions, throwing away any ray of hope that he will increase the number of women in the male dominated 20-member cabinet. The President has been facing mounting pressure […]
Members of Women Lawyers Association have presented a petition to President Peter Mutharika for reducing the number of women in Cabinet from four to three in the 20-member team. The Women Lawyers on Monday stormed the Office of President and Cabinet at Capital Hill, Lilongwe where they presented the petition to Chief Secretary to the […]