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Malawi: Forced Retirement of Malawi's Chief Justice Withdrawn By New Government
Nyasa Times, 7 July 2020
Government has withdrawn a public notice issued on June 12, 2020 by which stated that Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda had been placed on leave pending retirement. Read more »
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Malawi: Commonwealth Condemns Forced Retirement of Chief Justice
Nyasa Times, 17 June 2020
The Commonwealth secretariat has condemned attempts by the Malawi government to remove the country's Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda and Justice of Appeal Edward Twea days before… Read more »
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Malawi: Chakwera Vows to Reduce Presidential Powers, Declare Assets Yearly
Nyasa Times, 6 July 2020
New era indeed! President Lazarus Chakwera has said he will be submitting himself to "constitutional processes" including attending the presidential question time in parliament,… Read more »
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Malawi: Work Hard, No Freebies and Rewarding Noisemakers, Hand Clappers - Chakwera
Nyasa Times, 6 July 2020
President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday was inaugurated as the 6th President of Malawi and new Commander-in-Chief of Malawi Defence Force, ushering in a "new dawn of government… Read more »
Forced Retirement of Malawi's Chief Justice Withdrawn By New Govt
Just days before the June 23 presidential elections, hundreds of Malawian lawyers took to the streets to protest against interference with the judiciary, after then-president Peter Mutharika placed Chief Justice Nyirenda and Justice of Appeal Edward Twea on leave. Nyirenda led the Supreme Court decision which rejected Mutharika's bid to overturn a landmark ruling quashing his controversial re-election in May 2019.
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In an inauguration marking the first time a sitting African president was removed by a court-ordered election rerun, Lazarus Chakwere - a theologian - was sworn in on June 28. His ... Read more »
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Dr Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party has defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 60.3 percent of the vote in the re-run presidential election ordered by the country's ... Read more »
Malawi lawyers demonstrate in Blantyre against government interference in the judiciary on June 17.
