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Malawi: Sky-High Hotel Sale Plunges Peter Mutharika Back Into Scandal

All Africa 19 Apr 2026
An overpriced deal has put pensioners' savings at risk - and raised questions about governance under Malawi's returning president ....
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Malawi’s questionable hotel deal lingers

Mail Guardian South Africa 17 Apr 2026
When Arthur Peter Mutharika returned to Malawi’s presidency in October 2025, he cast his administration as a turning point in the country’s long struggle with corruption ... For President Mutharika, the ...
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Malawi’s vice-president executive ‘reshuffle’ exposes governance risks

Mail Guardian South Africa 05 Apr 2026
In November 2025, shortly after beginning his second term, President Peter Mutharika had delegated oversight of DoDMA to Ansah ... When Mutharika returned to power in September 2025, he inherited an economy under severe strain.
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Malawi’s aid vacuum draws new actors

Mail Guardian South Africa 19 Mar 2026
Following his return to office after winning the September 2025 presidential election with 56.8% of the vote, President Peter Mutharika declared a state of disaster on 25 October in 11 districts and extended it nationwide in November ... It fragments.
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Malawi’s new government drops corruption cases against senior officials

Mail Guardian South Africa 27 Feb 2026
This also comes after Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won Malawi’s September 2025 general election, defeating incumbent Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP).
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Elites indulge as Malawians suffer

Mail Guardian South Africa 22 Jan 2026
Mutharika later intervened to declare that the vice-president had paid for the trip personally, contradicting his own spokesperson and plunging the administration into an irreconcilable credibility crisis.
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