There has been looting by the protestors demanding the sacking of the electoral commission head they claim helped President Peter Mutharika rig the result.

Malawi’s opposition parties maintain typewriter correction fluid was used to change figures on results sheets from the May election won by Peter Mutharika with 38,6 % of the vote.

Lazarus Chakwera, who quit as Deputy President because he says Mutharika did not effectively fight corruption, maintains he won the election.

Soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Blantyre and Lilongwe to prevent looting, but companies including South Africa’s Multichoice have boarded up their shops as a precaution.

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More than 3000 Malawians signed a petition declaring Gandhi made disparaging remarks about black Africans.

It’s not clear what the Gandhi Must Fall campaign will do to bilateral relations between Indian and Malawi.

The statue was to have gone up at a cultural centre in Blantyre to which India has contributed  $10-million.

Malawian campaigners maintain the Indian independence activist did nothing for Malawi and undermined the confidence of black Africans.

Their efforts are reminiscent of the struggle to get the statue of Cecil John Rhodes removed from Cape Town University.

India established diplomatic ties with Malawi in 1964 and has become a major donor to the Central African country.

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