Chakwera Administration Archives

Chakwera shielding underperforming, corrupt and scandalous ministers

Dec 11, 2020 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera promised Malawians that he would fire underperforming ministers after giving them a 5-month probation period. Despite some ministers being shredded in scandals including serious allegations of corruption and tax evasion, Chakwera… ...

Malawians tell Blair off

Dec 01, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

Malawians have asked President Lazarus Chakwera to cancel any business arrangement, paid or unpaid, that this administration has made with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Chakwera administration has engaged the Tony Blair Institute… ...

State house abandons weekly briefings

Nov 16, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

State House has announced that the weekly briefings that were initiated in September will no longer feature from January 2021. At a weekly briefing in Lilongwe, the director of communications for state house Sean Kampondeni… ...

Activists say ministers shouldn’t hire own spokespersons: ‘It’s politics of appeasement’

Oct 31, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Rights activists say Lazarus Chakwera administration's decision to let cabinet ministers appoint own spokespersons is part of a scheme aimed at legitimizing blatant siphoning of taxpayers’ money into the pockets of the Tonse Alliance handclappers… ...