Although blessed with natural wonders, Malawi is struggling to woo visitors and fulfil the poor Southern African country’s ambition of turning tourism into a strong generator of foreign currency. Malawi, which dubs itself the ”Warm Heart of Africa”, boasts a slew of national parks, game reserves, mountains and Lake Malawi — Africa’s third-largest freshwater lake.
Malawi’s main opposition on Tuesday filed a suit for a re-run of last week’s presidential polls won by the ruling party as the European Union questioned the results of the impoverished country’s third free polls. Meanwhile, the Malawi Congress Party, which came second in the presidential polls but gained a parliamentary majority in general elections held the same day, said it would not join the new government.
Voters in Malawi went to the polls on Thursday to elect a new president and Parliament in the third multiparty elections since the end of dictatorial rule in the Southern African country, one of the poorest in the world.
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A former economy minister hand-picked by President Bakili Muluzi is tipped to win the presidential election on Thursday in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries. Muluzi is touting Bingu wa Mutharika as an ”economic engineer” and has been energetically campaigning on his behalf, at times even hogging the limelight from his political protege.
Just a year before he leaves office, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has broken all records and appointed the tiny southern African country’s largest cabinet in 39 years of independence.