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Malawi held elections Tuesday to choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives in the first national vote since the 2020 election that was a redo of the one the previous year nullified by a court ruling that it was fraudulent.

Analysts say the race is between President Lazarus Chakwera and his predecessor Peter Mutharika.

Malawi is holding elections to choose a president, lawmakers, and local government councillors

Malawi has a history of peaceful democratic transitions. Since the advent of multiparty politics in 1994, power has regularly shifted between rival parties. Citizens and institutions have upheld electoral democratic norms, from respecting term limits to rerunning elections after irregularities.

Some small-scale farmers in the southern African country of Malawi are using an AI chatbot for advice to help them improve their methods and become more resilient to climate change

A court in Johannesburg has sentenced seven Chinese nationals to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa

A community of nearly 9,000 homes in rural Malawi last month became the country’s first village to receive 100 percent universal access to solar power – a move that it is hoped could inspire change far beyond the region.

Clinics providing services such as antenatal checkups have begun to disappear in one of the world’s poorest countries