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Of 10.9 million eligible voters, only 7.2 million registered, a gap analysts blame on apathy and disillusionment with politics in a country where inflation is above 20% and 70% of the population lives in poverty. (@MalawiGovt/X)

Malawi’s high-tech election balances on fragile trust

As it counts ballots from its general election, new tech and legions of observers collide with old problems: public mistrust and the ghost of a nullified vote

Malawi president Peter Mutharika

Malawi on a knife’s edge as it awaits presidential election result

Despite there being 17 candidates, the poll was dominated by incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and former president Peter Mutharika

More than 7 million Malawians are expected to vote on Tuesday in elections that will test the country’s democracy and institutions. (Times Media)

Malawi votes for the first time since 2019 amid mistrust and hardship

This is the first presidential race since the Constitutional Court annulled the 2019 results

President Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party. Photo: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Archive

Malawi electorate’s only option is to recycle a president

The untimely death of vice-president Saulos Chilima has resulted in many considering ousting Lazarus Chakwera and voting for former president Peter Mutharika

Flailing economy: A boy sells chips on the roadside in Malawi. (Photo by: Angela Jimu/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Malawi we hoped for wasn’t delivered in 2020

The next elections are due in September 2025, but will the next government enable the country to overcome its economic hardships?

Saulos Chilima.  (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

A tribute to Malawi’s Saulos Chilima, the people’s hero

The vice president had great courage, with so much character that his politics was not only an inspiration at home, but echoed throughout East, Central and Southern Africa

Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Malawi vice-president, nine others, killed in plane crash

The military plane carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others disappeared on Monday