Simplex Chithyola Banda, Leader of the Opposition and Malawi Congress Party lawmaker, is expected to enter a plea in a corruption case on 7 August 2026, following the issuing of court summons. The Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate’s Court has summoned Chithyola Banda, a former finance minister, to appear in person to answer charges relating to […]
Inclusive, strategic and policy-driven, the opposition’s new front bench signals a shift from politics of protest to politics of oversight. Not Just Appointments—A Declaration of Intent The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has done more than announce a Shadow Cabinet—it has unveiled a strategy for governance from the opposition benches. Far from being a routine list […]
The Malawi Congress Party has announced a shadow cabinet, complete with a Leader of the Opposition, shadow ministers and — should anyone doubt the seriousness of the enterprise — deputy shadow ministers besides. Simplex Chithyola Banda takes the top job, leading the party’s parliamentary team, while Nancy Tembo, a former Cabinet minister who presumably knows […]
George Kadzipatike, the lawyer representing the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and three of its legislators who secured a court injunction blocking the relocation of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to Blantyre, has threatened further legal action unless the Commission’s outstanding rent is settled. MEC is facing a deadline to pay approximately K885 million in rental […]
A Malawian cabinet minister has accused the opposition of shameless hypocrisy over a stalled fertiliser factory project — insisting the party has no right to point fingers when it sat on the problem for years while in power. Local Government Minister Dr Ben Malunga Phiri let rip at the former ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP) […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Wednesday held a high‑level caucus in Lilongwe aimed at aligning its parliamentary strategy following the opening of Parliament this week. Former State President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, who also leads the MCP, chaired the meeting at the party’s National Headquarters. According to party officials, the session was convened to ensure […]
When the Speaker calls the House to order today, it will not just mark the beginning of the Third Meeting of the 52nd Session of Parliament. For millions of Malawians struggling to put food on the table, pay school fees, or access healthcare, it will represent another test of whether their leaders are listening. Behind […]
Malawi’s political world was rocked to its core last night after Babu Khamisa, a senior figure in the Malawi Congress Party’s powerful National Executive Committee, quit the party without warning — only to surface hours later at a DPP rally, grinning alongside his former comrades. Khamisa, once seen as a loyal MCP insider, detonated a […]
Former State President Dr Lazarus Chakwera’s greatest political service to the Malawi Congress Party may no longer be to lead it. It is to leave it. That is not an argument for erasing his contribution. It is an argument for protecting it. Chakwera carried MCP from the long shadow of opposition into government, restored its […]
A prominent youth member of the UTM party, Mervin Khamula, was on Monday attacked in Lilongwe’s Area 3 by men believed to be linked to the ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP), in an assault that has renewed concerns over the safety of political activists in the country. Khamula was on his way to work at […]
UTM Party led by state vice president, Dr Saulos Chilima is alleged to have given the Malawi Congress Party hierarchy to meet its fair share of representation or risk breaking away, it has been reported. The widening gulf between the two parties seem to have reached irreparable levels, only surviving because President Lazarus Chakwera and […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) of Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera is to launch an offensive local campaign aimed at displacing the United Democratic Front (UDF), Peoples’ Party and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the Eastern Region. A strategic action group involving all MCP political players in the Eastern Region met over the weekend in Mangochi […]
“My goal of overhauling this broken and rotten system from top to bottom.” The Public Sector Systems Review taskforce led by Vice President Salous Chilima will on Friday present its report to President Lazarus Chakwera at Kamuzu palace. On February 14, 2021, Chakwera tasked Chilima to form and lead a Taskforce that will recommend radical […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday led the nation in commemorating the life of Malawi’s first head of state, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, where he gave a spirited talk on the need of the country’s citizenry being patriotic. Kamuzu, fondly referred to as Ngwazi, ruled Malawi for 31 years under the four cornerstones of obedience, loyalty, unity […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is suspected to be using part of the K6.2 billion and K17 billion of Covid money to train 162 party militias as its paramilitary wing with a view to bring back repressive regime. The purported investigative report, currently trending on various social media platforms, alleges that the first cohort entered the […]
Former president Peter Mutharika has come out of his cacoon to accuse his successor President Lazarus Chakwera of persecuting him. At a news conference on Saturday at his retirement home in Mangochi, Mutharika said there’s need to end a culture of prosecuting former presidents. Mutharika, ousted from power through last year’s fresh presidential election, said […]
Over 130 Malawi Congress Party (MCP) election monitors are pressing for payment of their services from the party. They are accusing the party leadership of failing to pay them at least K18 million for working as monitors during the May 2019 elections. They claimed their efforts to engage the party leadership have yielded no positive […]
A case in which a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidate is challenging the results in Mangochi Monkey Bay was adjourned Thursday waiting for judgment. The case has sent shivers in the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which lost all the seats in the recent court sanctioned by-elections. The High Court in Blantyre is expected […]