Wrapped in blankets against an early morning chill, voters waited in long lines to cast ballots on Thursday in Malawi’s third multiparty elections, a poll marred by logistical problems and allegations of vote rigging before it even began. President Bakili Muluzi, who led the country from dictatorship to democracy, is bowing out after a decade of deepening poverty and hunger.
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