Nancy Tembo

Nancy Gladys Tembo is a Malawian politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Malawi Government between 2022 and 2025. She is also a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Lilongwe City Ngwenya constituency in the National Assembly of the Republic of Malawi.

She ran as an independent candidate after a bungled 2018 Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary election and went on to secure a landslide victory in the 2019 Malawian general election.

She was the voice of the MCP (then the main opposition party) during the Bingu wa Mutharika Presidency (2009-2012). She was detained and badly beaten along with protest leaders such as Billy Mayaya and Undule Mwakasungula during the infamous Protests on July 20, 2011 where 22 people were killed by security forces.

During her first term as Member of Parliament (2004-2009), Tembo was the shadow Minister of Education, chair of the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC)-Malawi, and served on the Public Accounts Committee and Parliamentary Committee on Health (where she chaired the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Reproduction).

During her second term as MP, she served on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA...