Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera sacked Defence Minister Harry Mkandawire in a mini cabinet reshuffle.
Chakwera also fired Deputy Education Minister Nancy Mdooko and reassigned other ministers to new portfolios in a move he said in his New Year’s message to the nation was aimed at offering the best service to the country in 2025.
Chakwera had come under intense pressure from various sectors of society to fire Mkandawire over the manner in which the death of Vice-President Saulosi Chilima on June 10 last year in a military plane crash was handled.
Chilima and eight others died in the crash in a forest in the northern part of Malawi in dense fog and the military has been accused of negligence in terms of organizing search and rescue efforts.
