The deadly anti-government riots against President Bingu wa Mutharika in Malawi are a signal that public anger will not be silenced.
After initially forbidding a mass funeral for people slain in anti-government protests to take place, Malawi authorities have had a change of heart.
When Kanthukako Supaunyolo’s grandson woke up in the night with a nosebleed, his parents were enraged by what they saw as a bad omen.
Malawi’s presidential elections on Tuesday will give voters their first say on a years-long power struggle that has paralysed the government.
Malawi’s forests are vanishing, victims of the world’s taste for cigarettes and the eternal search by local people for wood for cooking and heating. The small country holds Southern Africa’s melancholy record for deforestation: 2,8% of the forest cover vanishes each year, experts say.
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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