By Elias Mambo – April 26, 2019 – Zim Morning Post 6.8 million registered voters 1331 parliamentary candidates.

State procurement chiefs are unlikely to face any music, despite being implicated in Ombud report. Malawi’s Ombud Martha Chimuza-Mwangonde has formally asked the country’s prosecuting authorities to crack down on state procurement chiefs implicated in the multibillion-kwacha “Tractorgate” scandal.

President Peter Mutharika says Malawi must fight back against the fraudulent movement of foreign exchange offshore, which is aggravating poverty.

The scandal surrounding Malawi’s politically connected Sterling Timber International has deepened, with an insider alleging that the government settled the company’s large debt to the state-owned Malawi Savings Bank.