Inducement, intimidation and pressure are occupational hazards for African judges
, Andrew Nyirenda, is an industrious chap. Since donning the wig 26 years ago he has racked up 572 days of untaken leave, or so says the office of Peter Mutharika, Malawi’s president. Last week it ordered Mr Nyirenda to go on holiday immediately. Since the chief justice would reach retirement age before the end of his break, it also said he should step down forthwith.
The obduracy of Malawi’s judges is not only welcome; it could have consequences beyond the country’s borders. Their demand for a re-run of the presidential vote is only the second time that courts in Africa have overturned a dodgy election; Kenya’s Supreme Court did so in 2017. African judiciaries have grown a little more impartial in recent years. Yet progress is uneven. For every Malawi, there is a Democratic Republic of Congo, where the courts last year upheld President Félix Tshisekedi’s victory in an election he actually lost by some distance. For every Kenya, there is a Zambia, where in 2018 the Constitutional Court allowed President Edgar Lungu to ransack the constitution and serve a third term if he felt like it.
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