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Could Malawi's historic re-run election inspire Africa?

Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader and now president, Lazarus Chakwera (L) came to power after a rerun election. [AFP]

The opposition triumph in Malawi's recent landmark election re-run after last year's fraudulent polls were overturned could spur similar democratic change across the continent, analysts and historians say.

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