Peter Mutharika

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Malawi’s main opposition Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera campaigns in Lilongwe on June 20th. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
Malawi opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera wins historic election

Lazarus Chakwera, a Pentecostal pastor-turned-politician, was inaugurated as Malawi’s president after winning the first opposition victory in an elect(...)

Peter Mutharika, Malawi’s president since 2014, won a close election in 2019 with a 38.57 per cent share of the vote. Photograph: Reuters/Eldson Chagara
Malawi presidency to challenge court’s quashing of election result
  • Africa
  • February 5, 2020, 18:59

Malawi’s presidency said on Wednesday it would appeal against a court ruling that overturned Peter Mutharika’s narrow election victory, calling the o(...)

Malawi’s president Peter Mutharika salutes arrives last month at the launch of his Democratic Progressive Party’s manifesto and election campaign at Kamuzu Institute for Sports in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe. Photograph: Getty Images
Malawi’s president Peter Mutharika narrowly wins re-election

Malawi’s president Peter Mutharika has narrowly won re-election with 38 per cent of the votes in last week’s polls, the electoral commission has decla(...)

A woman and children harvesting groundnuts in Malawi. More than 50% of the country’s 18 million people live below the poverty line, making it the fourth poorest country in the world. Photograph: Getty Images
Poverty, corruption and fake news to the fore as Malawi gears up for elections

Corruption, poverty and the economy are at the forefront of citizens’ minds ahead of Malawi’s “three-horse race” elections set to take place next week(...)

Peter Mutharika, president of Malawi: been visiting parts of the country affected by the violence. Photograph: Riccardo Savi/Getty Images
Malawi arrests 140 in clampdown after ‘vampirism’ killings
  • Africa
  • October 20, 2017, 19:54

Police in Malawi said they arrested 140 suspected members of vigilante mobs that have targeted people accused of vampirism, clamping down after a wave(...)

A father signs a document promising not to marry his daughter off during a fathers and daughters’ ‘chat day’ in Chiradzulu district, Malawi. Photograph: Didem Tali
Malawi moves away from child bride tradition
  • Africa
  • September 5, 2015, 01:00

It’s the Fathers and Daughters’ “chat day” at a village in the Chiradzulu district of southern Malawi, initiated by grassroots activists and village a(...)