Malawi politics

The Legal Affairs Committee has proposed the empowerment of National Planning Commission to certify registration of political parties and their manifestoes.

Malawi has officially started hosting the 41st SADC heads of state summit. The summit is expected to conclude on Wednesday next week. One of the highlights of the day saw Lucky Sikwese, Principal Secretary for ministry of foreign…

The Malawi Electoral Commission stuck to its guns saying it will go ahead registering new voters ahead of the fresh presidential election expected to start on 4th April.

Operations of the office of the Ombudsman risk to be disrupted as it has been faced with lack of funds, MIJ Online has learnt.

President Peter Mutharika risks being impeached over the current electoral reforms situation, a law expert has said. The observations have been made at a time there are growing calls for Mutharika to assent to the electoral reform bills.

The High Court in Lilongwe has sentenced two Principal Secretaries for Agriculture and Finance, Grey Nyandule Phiri and Cliff Chiunda respectively to custodial sentence of 9 months each for contempt of court and suspended to 24 months.

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition has announced plans to hold demonstrations if President Peter Mutharika does not assent to the electoral bills.

The UTM and MCP alliance negotiation teams are facing calls to put their interests aside if the parties are to have a successful agreement on an alliance.

With this, analysts in the country are of the view that if the practice is not checked then the conduct will continue to fuel corruption among politicians since personal interests are involved.

Malawi has over the last decade had sustained economic restrains due to the lack of clear cut governance and policy frameworks, an expert has said.