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Charles Mhango
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs
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- Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs
- In office since
- October 2025
Charles Mhango is Malawi’s Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, appointed on 30 October 2025. He succeeded Titus Mvalo, who held the post under President Chakwera. He is not a Member of Parliament.
He was Attorney General, the government’s principal legal adviser, in Peter Mutharika’s first government. In January 2018 the Malawi Law Society questioned his double role as Attorney General and legal adviser to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). At the time he had said he wanted to stand for Parliament in Rumphi Central against Enock Chihana.
As minister, in November 2025 he began a review of the inquiry into the June 2024 plane crash that killed Vice President Saulos Chilima and eight others. In February 2026 he told Parliament that President Mutharika had ordered a fresh inquiry, to be run by a committee of MPs from different parties with technical experts.
In July 2026 he met Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
