However, prison population has been reduced to around 13 500, as of the 2023 Independence Day, following President Lazarus Chakwera’s pardons.

Source: https://mwnation.com/foreigners-stuff-malawi-prisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreigners-stuff-malawi-prisons

While from the myopic look of things President Lazarus Chakwera’s last night national address carried some sense, commentators feel it was one of the useless and untimely “bragging show” that ought not to be tolerated in the twenty first century.

Source: https://www.malawivoice.com/2023/11/16/cdedi-tears-apart-chakwera-address-it-was-a-ecf-bragging-show-nothing-for-the-majority-poor/