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DARK SECRETS: Malawi president changes finance minister in reshuffled cabinet | Rare Historical Photos

FILE PHOTO: Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has changed the southern African country's finance minister in a reshuffled cabinet, a government statement showed, with the post going to economist and former trade minister Sosten Gwengwe.

Analysts say Gwengwe is a loyalist of Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party and the move to drop his predecessor Felix Mlusu could show that Chakwera wants to bolster his party's position within the ruling alliance.

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