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Former Malawi president Banda returns home, says ready to prove innocence

Former President of Malawi Joyce Banda speaks during a conference on women in development programme in Lagos, Nigeria. (File, Reuters)

Former Malawi president Joyce Banda returned home on Saturday to a rousing welcome by supporters and vowed to prove her innocence after more than three years in self-imposed exile amid graft allegations.

The so-called “Cashgate” scandal in which senior government officials were accused of siphoning millions of dollars from state coffers was uncovered in 2013 while she was president. Donor countries cut off aid, hampered development in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest and most aid-dependent countries.

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