President Lazarus Chakwera and vice president Saulos Chilima have joined African leaders in congratulating US President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, following their victory. Biden was declared president-elect four days after polls closed, marking the conclusion of a bitter race against President Donald Trump that was fought against the backdrop of the […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has reacted to demand by women in the country for harsher penalties to eradicate an entrenched culture of sexual violence by directing the Ministry of Homeland Security to lead a task force on dealing with the matters urgently. Chakwera made his directive in his Saturday radio address as earlier in the day […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday led the nation in honouring Malawian soldiers who fought in the first and second World Wars. Following a two-minute silence, the President led the way by laying a wreath at a makeshift cenotaph at Mzuzu Upper Stadium. During the ceremony attended by people from all walks of life, including Cabinet ministers, members of […]
Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa has launched a scathing attack on President Lazarus Chakwera accusing him of plotting to slide Malawi back to the three decades of dictatorship and political tyranny where membership to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was compulsory. Nankhumwa has said this in response to the President’s Thursday address in which he challenged boards […]
Clergy have asked President Lazarus Chakwera to walk the talk by fulfilling what the Tonse Alliance promises in their manifesto during the campaign period ahead of the June 23 Presidential elections. Moderator of CCAP Synod of Livingstonia, Rev Isaac Malongo said the President should fulfil what they promised Malawians during the campaign period as people […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday embarrassed some of his close aides and senior party officials when he refused to hold an impromptu whistle stop political tour in Mzuzu after party loyalists were already ferried from all corners in the northern region. Party loyalists, mostly women clad in Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and other Tonse alliance […]
“[There] are leaders who win competitive elections primarily because of their seemingly uncompromising support of good governance, but upon attaining power steadily adopt autocratic rule. Unfortunately, this reversion is becoming all too common and one must wonder whether the African democratisation project is in retreat, at least in some countries. Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika […]
President Lazarus Chakwera was visibly angry and menacing on Thursday, flanked by a Malawi army chief and the police boss, while addressing the nation, mostly, about the leakage of Malawi School Certificate Examinations (MSCE) examinations. Perhaps, that was the first time to see an angry Chakwera flashing his anger in public for, what one would […]
In their time, errand boys of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were ruthlessly frank in reminding all of us, almost every day, with that apparently disdaining adage ‘DPP is a system’. That adage was well packaged and summed it all for DPP: It meant they are running a scheme of defrauding Malawians through planting their boys […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has put all controlling officers for all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies on notice that if they do not perform productively by the end of the year, they will be fired. Chakwera made the warning on a special address to the nation on Thursday by laying bare his personal anguish following the mass […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed open disappointment with the director of Public Prosecutions office for its failure to prosecute Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) presiding officers over the messy 2019 presidential election which was nullified. Speaking at Kamuzu palace in Lilongwe, Chakwera said the High Court and Supreme Court determined that hundreds of presiding officers broke […]
Palestinian president’s special envoy Hanan Jarrar arrived in Malawi on Wednesday to hand over a letter of protest from Mahmoud Abbas against President Lazarus Chakwera’s decision to open an embassy in the disputed city of Jerusalem and has asked Lilongwe to immediately withdraw the decision. The Palestine envoy handed the protest letter to Chakwera, who […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has commended the new board of State-owned National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) chaired by Secretary to President and Cabinet Zangazanga Chikhosi for assessing allegations of abuse of office by some of the executives there. Nocma has suspended CEO Gift Dulla and director of finance (DoF) Richard Milanzi to pave the way for […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) to re-administer 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations before end of January as government cancelled the examinations after several test papers were leaked. Revelations of the leakage of some examination papers prompted Minister of Education Agnes NyaLonje to call for a news conference in […]
State House has said President Lazarus Chakwera will be on a five-day visit to the Northern Region from Friday to among others appreciate the support that people have rendered his administration and for voting him as the country’s leader in June this year. Presidential press secretary Brian Banda said Chakwera owes people of the North […]
Malawi is to become the first African country to open an embassy to Israel in disputed Jerusalem Malawi has had diplomatic ties with the Jewish state since 1964 but without opening an embassy Minister of Foreign Affairs Eisenhower Mkaka is in Israel where he has formally informed the government there that Malawi is to become the first […]
State House director of communication and executive assistant to the President, Sean Kampondeni, has expressed worry over the growing tendency of fake news on social media especially to do with the President. Kampondeni said they will utilize the State House weekly brief to address such fake reports from social media carpers. He brushed aside as fake […]
President Lazarus Chakwera will now make personal regular visits to Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe for civil service productivity check, the president’s close aide has disclosed. Speaking Monday in Lilongwe, State House director of Communications, Sean Kampondeni, says the main purpose of the visits is to ensure that government ministries and departments […]