Chakwera further reduce witnesses in Malawi elections case
Hearing of a petition seeking nullification of presidential elections results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections resumes this Monday as second petitioner Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential...
View ArticleAnglican bishop tells Mutharika, Chakwera, Chilima to hold dialogue
An Anglican bishop has told the three powerful politicians to bury the hatchets and meet for dialogue to stop the country from sliding into a civil war. Bishop Alinafe Kalemba says the spate of...
View ArticleBendolo insist MEC figures falsified: Lawyer Mbeta says testimony premised on...
Malawi Congress Party president Lazarus Chakwera fourth witness Anthony Bendulo in the petition case to nullify presidential elections results for the May 21 Tripartite Elections has maintained that...
View ArticleMalawi witness re-examined, explains Malawi polls irregularities
Fourth witness for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera in the elections petition case, Anthony Bendulo, on Friday highlighted alleged electoral irregularities during...
View ArticleNtata’s Uncommon Sense: From Russia with love
Obviously, I was delighted to see that our President, Arthur Peter Mutharika brought home some love from Russia. After all, wasn’t it I, “yours truly”, that declared two weeks ago that what Malawi...
View ArticlePictorial of Malawi royal wedding guests: Who was the best dressed?
Inkosi Gomani V of the Maseko Ngoni wedded his long-time fiancee Rishaladza Mathebula from South Africa on Saturday at Ntcheu CCAP church followed by a colourful ceremony at Nkolimbo Village ground in...
View ArticleChilima lawyers apply to court not to allow MEC IT expert make presentation
Lawyers for UTM Party president Saulos Chilima in the landmark elections case have applied to the Constitutional Court not to allow the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) IT director Muhabi Chisi not to...
View ArticleSuleman enters re-examination as Mbeta winds up cross examination with optimism
Daud Suleman, the key witness in the historic presidential elections petitions case, remains in the witness box for a friendly re-examination by second petitioner Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president...
View ArticleTalking Blues: Chakwera plus Chilima minus egos and greed equals….?
First, let’s commend ourselves for resisting the strong temptation to comment on the proceedings of the ongoing case in the Constitutional Court where Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s Lazarus Chakwera and...
View ArticleTheu punches holes in Chimkango’s testimony: MCP satisfied with first...
UTM Party president Dr Saulos Chilima’s lawyer Bright Theu on Wednesday rounded off cross examining Bob Chimkango, the second witness for President Peter Mutharika who is the first respondent in the...
View ArticleLaw professor says MEC faces an uphill task to save Malawi poll case
A renowned law professor says pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) faces an uphill task to save the presidential election after its chief executive officer admitted to a litany of...
View ArticleLaw experts Kasambara, Chilumpha say Chilima back as Malawi veep once court...
A former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara a senior counsel in law (SC) as well as Dr Cassim Chilumpha SC – a former Vice President and law lecturer – have indicated that once the Constitutional Court...
View ArticleNo cross-examination for MEC ‘wizard’: Court concludes hearing evidence in...
The Constitutional Court hearining the May 21 Tripartite Elections presidential poll results dispute on Friday December 6 concluded hearing in Lilongwe earlier than anticipated after petitioners UTM...
View ArticleChilima avoids politicking during UTM family day event
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima on Sunday gave politics a blank cheque during the party’s family day activities at Lilongwe golf club, saying he has been advised by his lawyers to keep quiet on the...
View ArticleUTM says no peace talks before verdict on Malawi election case: ‘Ansah, MEC...
UTM Party, first petitioner in the presidential election nullification case, has made it crystal clear that it will not go to the negotiation table with government before the Constitutional Court makes...
View ArticleMutharika, Chilima no show at PAC peace prayers: Chimulirenji, Chakwera attends
President Peter Mutharika and UTM Party president Saulos Chilima on Saturday did not attend the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) initiated peace talks on Saturday in Lilongwe. PAC executive director...
View ArticleMutharika, Chilima absence at PAC prayers missed opportunity to unify Malawi...
A political analyst has described as a missed opportunity for unity the absence of President Peter Mutharika and UTM Party president Saulos Chilima at Public Affairs Committee (PAC) initiated peace...
View ArticleUTM lawyers file court submissions with errors
The Constitutional Court hearing the elections case has extended time for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and President Peter Mutharika to respond to submissions after UTM Party lawyers sent an...
View ArticleChilima, Chakwera submissions ask court to declare Malawi presidential...
Lawyers for first petitioner Saulos Chilima and second petitioner Lazarus Chakwera challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika in May have asked the Constitutional Court in their final...
View ArticleChilima, Chakwera failed to prove rigging: MEC submissions in Malawi poll case
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has given its defence submissions in the historic presidential elections petition case with Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale stating that there was no skulduggery...
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