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Peter Mutharika
Arthur Peter Mutharika is a Malawian politician and lawyer who has been the seventh president of Malawi since 2025. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the younger brother of the third president, Bingu wa Mutharika, he served as the fifth president from 2014 to 2020 and has also been leading the DPP since 2012.
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politics · President of Malawi (2014–2020; since 2025) · politician · diplomat · lawyer · minister · also Peter Mutharika, Arthur Peter Mutharika, Mutharika
Born 18 July 1940 · Q7176020
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 8 entries
Election won: 2025 election.
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Yahoo: Peter Mutharika is sworn in as Malawi president in political comeback at the age of 85
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The Africa Report: Peter Mutharika, 85, returns to ‘rescue’ Malawi
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BBC: Mutharika wins Malawi election, as it happened
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Yahoo: Former Malawi President Peter Mutharika has a strong lead in partial election results
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Broke his own record in 2014 and once again became the oldest Malawian president to take office, having taken office at the age of 85
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Career landmark: President of Malawi (2025).
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Campaign: 2025 election.
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2019· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “President Mutharika commissions a water tap” Misleading.
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2018· 3 entries
Champion, Global Partnership for Education
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Thousands of people took to the streets in several cities across the country to denounce corruption scandals
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Lifetime Achievement Award on Africa's Sustainable Development, Iconic Africa Summit, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2026
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2016· 1 entry
Honorary Professor, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, 2018
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2014· 4 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Defence (2014–2020).
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To single digits by 2019, and many infrastructure projects advanced further during this time as well
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Career landmark: President of Malawi (2014–2020).
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And also became the eighth oldest serving state leader ever and the third in Africa, after Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové in Togo and Paul Biya in Cameroon
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2012· 2 entries
Bingu died and Mutharika was wrongfully accused of attempting to succeed his brother instead of vice president Joyce Banda
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In issues of foreign and domestic policy
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011–2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Tensions rose over claims that Bingu planned to name Peter to succeed him as party leader over his vice-president, Joyce Banda
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2009· 1 entry
Mutharika joined politics during the presidency of his elder brother and was elected to the National Assembly for the Thyolo East District
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1995· 1 entry
Argued for limiting presidential powers in Malawi
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1971· 1 entry
Was admitted to the bar in Tanzania and became a professional lawyer
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1965· 1 entry
With a bachelor's degree in law, and the Yale University with a master's degree in law in 1966 and a doctorate in Juridical Science in 1968
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-07-18.
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