MALAWI: A historic first for Africa
Malawi’s June presidential election broke new ground. For the first time, an African country saw a change in government resulting from an election that was rerun after its Constitutional Court overturned the original result. These events offered hope that safeguards to defend democratic freedoms are becoming stronger in Malawi.
Civil society has many expectations of the new government. One of the key expectations is that the new government will place the promotion and protection of human rights at the top of its agenda and strengthen the fundamental freedoms of all Malawians in line with international human rights standards.
Michael Kaiyatsa
