Following his return to office after winning the September 2025 presidential election with 56.8% of the vote, PresidentPeterMutharika declared a state of disaster on 25 October in 11 districts and extended it nationwide in November ... It fragments.
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.
Backed by a historic electoral mandate, the return of ProfessorMutharika to State House stands among the most consequential political developments in Africa in 2025.