Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has summoned controlling officers from dozens of ministries, departments and agencies after a compliance monitoring report by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) flagged systemic weaknesses that it said were enabling corruption, according to Nation Online. Nation Online reports the ACB cited gaps in procurement oversight, fraud-prevention measures and internal monitoring, and found that 37 of 79 institutions sampled, plus four local government authorities, scored below 50 percent on compliance. According to Nation Online, committee chairperson Gilbert Khonyongwa said the hearings would be corrective rather than punitive, while Office of the President and Cabinet principal secretary Reinford Mwangonde said government would not downplay the findings and was considering linking integrity committee performance to controlling officers’ appraisals.
Civil society organisations have criticised Malawi for not using its role in SADC’s peace and security structures to press for African Union debate on what Malawi24 describes as deceptive recruitment linked to the Russia-Ukraine war. According to Malawi24, the groups said Malawi was well placed to raise the matter at the AU Summit held in Addis Ababa from February 11 to 15, 2026, and analysts cited by Malawi24 described the omission as a missed opportunity despite reports of Africans dying after being recruited to fight for Russia against Ukraine. SADC documentation lists Tanzania as chair of the SADC Organ Troika, with Malawi as incoming chair, according to the SADC website.