True
A memo dated October 10, 2025, signed by Dr. Justin Adick Saidi, Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet, stated that the government has suspended recruitment and promotions in the civil service with immediate effect due to the increased wage bill. According to Dr Saidi the suspension will be in effect until mid-year budget review sessions of parliament.
Misleading
The document is fabricated and not an authentic publication from Nation Publications Limited. The Nation Editor, Aubrey Mchulu, has explicitly said the page is not that of The Nation. Nation Publications Limited (NPL) has labeled it as fake. Official Nation Publications Limited Facebook page posted the real October 10, 2025, front page of The Nation newspaper.
False
Malawi Police Service (MPS) spokesperson Peter Kalaya said the poster is not from his office and just suspecting that some people might have edited MPS' recent poster.
Misleading
Reverse image search on Google shows that journalist Eric Halperin posted the picture in the morning of May 30, 2020. The picture was taken during the George Floyd protests in the United State of America, where several local businesses were damaged.
True
Official government platforms and other media outlets have published the circulating press release.
False
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) Communications Officer Collins Nsunza told iverify Malawi that Mhango remains in the Flames camp, only that he is suspended for the upcoming match against Equatorial Guinea because he accumulated two yellow cards. According to Nsunza, Mhango will be available for the subsequent game against Tunisia. Babatunde Adepoju was separately called up to the squad and is not replacing Mhango.
False
Mulhakho wa Alhomwe Board has dissociated itself from the misleading and fabricated statement saying that the grouping remains strictly apolitical, with no intention to influence the president's decisions or interfere in matters of governance.
True
Official Malawi Government platforms have published the circulating statement
True
The Anti-Corruption Bureau spokesperson Jacqueline Ngongonda confirmed that Charles Mchacha, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Regional Governor for the South, went to the Bureau's offices in Blantyre as part of his bail condition on the corruption case he is answering. The Bureau, however, did not say anything about the alleged threats and shouting that Mchacha reportedly did while there.
False
iVerify Malawi interviewed Abida Mia, ESCOM spokesperson Pilirani Phiri and some sources in Chikwawa and found that Abida Mia was not involved in removal of the electricity transformer in Chikwawa Nkombezi. Without commenting on the Abida Mia issue, Pilirani Phiri, Chief Public Relations and Communication Officer for ESCOM, said the decision to swap electricity transformers for Mphungu and Ngabu Trading Centres was made by ESCOM after an A 1 MVA transformer at Ngabu Cotton Ginnery developed a fault.
False
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Peter Mukhito, whose signature was used on the statement, described the circulating statement as fake and not coming from his office as claimed.
False
Uladi Mussa told iVerify Malawi that "it is not true that he has resigned, and it is just propaganda aimed at undermining his standing within the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and creating division post-elections." Mussa emphasised that he remains an active member of the party and has no intention of resigning. Besides, Uladi Mussa did not contest in the parliamentary elections as the circulating information is claiming.
True
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Peter Mukhito confirmed that the statement indeed originated from his office.
False
iVerify Malawi talked to Engineer Alfonso Chikuni in an ordinary local phone call on Friday, September 26, 2025, and there was nothing that indicated the call was international, to validate the claim that he is outside Malawi. iVerify Malawi also found that Malawi Voice has not posted information as claimed in the screenshot circulating on WhatsApp.
True
In an interview with iVerify Malawi, judiciary spokesperson Ruth Mputeni confirmed that the circulating document is real.
