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Charles Chilambula
Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation; MP for Likoma Islands
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- Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation
- Member of Parliament for Likoma Islands
- Constituency
- Likoma Islands
- District
- Likoma
- Region
- Northern Region
- Party
- DPP Democratic Progressive Party
- In Parliament
- Elected 16 September 2025
- In office since
- January 2026
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2025 election result: Likoma Islands
- Charles Chilambula DPP3,172 46.2%
- Ashems Christopher Songwe MCP2,458 35.8%
- Masauko Thawe Independent1,136 16.6%
- Vincent Joe Chirwa PP97 1.4%
Source: Malawi Electoral Commission
Charles Chilambula is Malawi’s Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation, appointed on 5 January 2026, when the number of deputy ministers went up from three to seven.
Charles Chilambula is the Member of Parliament for Likoma Islands constituency in Likoma district, in Malawi’s Northern Region. He sits as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In the 16 September 2025 general election Chilambula won the seat with 3,172 votes (46.2% of valid votes), ahead of Ashems Christopher Songwe (MCP) with 2,458. 4 candidates stood.
In May 2026 he was criticised for a statement on rising crime on Likoma, which asked people not originally from the island to follow rules set by local people. Residents and rights campaigners called it xenophobic, pointing out that every Malawian may live and work anywhere in the country.
