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Peter Mutharika, seeking a second final term at the helm faces tough competition from his vice president Saulos Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera, who has been endorsed by former president Joyce Banda.

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Fresh from heading the SADC observation team to South Africa’s election last week, Zambia’s Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji is leading the regional observers to the Malawi poll.

He says the 39-person team will apply SADC’s revised guidelines on monitoring to check on the election.

Officials concede that transportation of voting materials and officials to polling stations poses a logistical problem along with speedily moving the results back to the election commission for final scrutiny and announcing  the outcome.

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