High Court Judge Redson Kapindu has rescheduled Vice President Dr Saulos Chilima's plea taking to next Friday. Originally slated for today, the court was ex
Vi ce-Presi dent Saulos Chil ima was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday, representing Malawi at the 60th Anniversary of the Union Day for that country. It is the first time the Veep has traveled outside the country on official duties since President Lazarus Chakwera withheld delegated powers to his vice on June 21 2022.
, The United States government has slapped a visa ban on four former senior Malawi government officials, including the former Head of the Malawi Police Service, George Kainja, over corruption allegations regarding Malawian-born British citizen Zuneth Sattar, provoking an outburst from President Lazarus Chakwera. The President was reported as saying in the Chichewa language that the US has the highest levels of gun violence, drug-related crime, illegal immigrants and racism against black people. We have a better justice and anti-corruption systems than them. For them to jump the gun and interfere in the cases is unacceptable.
Debate has ensued on the status of President Lazarus Chakwera’s withholding of delegated powers to Vice-President Saulos Chilima after dispatching him to represent the country at the 60th Anniversary of the Union Day for Tanzania. The decision comes two years after the President, in a June 2022 national address, announced the withholding of “any delegated