28th June, 2020
Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn in as new president after defeating the incumbent peter Mutharika during a re-run. Chakwera won by garnering 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday's poll. In February, Malawi's constitutional court annulled Mutharika's victory in the May 2019 election, citing vote tampering. The country was bitterly divided in the run-up to this week's election. It is the second African nation to annul a presidential election over irregularities, after Kenya in 2017.