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Partial recount ordered in Malawi’s presidential election

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In this Tuesday, May 21, 2019, photo, vote counting gets underway in Blantyre, Malawi. The country went to the polls to elect a new president in which 78-year-old President Peter Mutharika is seeking re-election to a second term. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Malawi’s president in the lead for re-election

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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters attend a final election rally led by Malawian President, Peter Mutharika, in Blantyre, Malawi Saturday, May 18, 2019. Corruption and the need for economic growth are the main campaign issues as Malawi goes to the polls on Tuesday for a presidential election that pits the incumbent 78-year-old president Peter Mutharika of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party against his own vice president, 46-year-old Saulos Chilima as well as the main opposition party leader Lazarus Chakwera, 64. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Jobs, corruption top issues as Malawi votes for president

By GREGORY GONDWE - Associated Press

A woman carrying water and a baby on her back after collecting water in Beira, Mozambique, Monday, March 25, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Correction: Mozambique-Cyclone-The Latest story

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccessible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding throughout the region of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

The Latest: UN will press global community for cyclone aid

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A man stands on the edge of a collapsed bridge in Chimanimani, about 600 kilometers southeast of Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, March 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Cyclone’s death toll into the hundreds in southern Africa

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Cyclone Idai hits Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, killing 150

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

Steve Simsokwe, a Malawian business operator, is leading protests against Chinese-run businesses in rural areas of the country. Malawi's laws allow foreign investors to set up shop only in cities. (Henry Kijimwana Mhango/Special to The Washington Times)

Chinese squeeze out Africa small businesses

By Henry Kijimwana Mhango - Special to The Washington Times

First lady Melania Trump boards a plane at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. First lady Melania Trump is visiting Africa on her first big solo international trip. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Melania Trump promotes US agency, Trump wants to cut funding

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Africa backs Infantino for FIFA re-election next year

By ANDREW JACKSON ORYADA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Nov 7, 2016 file photo, U.S. Singer Madonna, right, and her son David Banda perform in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Washington Square Park. The Queen of Pop is also a soccer mom and she's getting ever more involved in the beautiful game. Madonna has plans to open a soccer academy in Malawi, inspired by her adopted son David Banda who has ambitions to be a professional player and is at Portuguese club Benfica's youth academy. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP file)

Madonna is the Queen of Pop and a soccer mom, too

By PETER KANJERE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 16, 2018 file photo, U.S. singer Madonna speaks to the press at a news conference in Blantyre, Malawi. Madonna is celebrating her upcoming 60th birthday with a fundraiser to raise funds for orphans and children in Malawi. The singer tells The Associated Press she’s teaming with Facebook for the fundraiser, which runs from Monday through Aug. 31. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)

Madonna to celebrate 60th birthday with Malawi fundraiser

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press

US singer Madonna speaks to the press at a news conference in Blantyre, Malawi, Monday, July 16, 2018. Madonna has adopted four Malawian children, is in the country to celebrate the first anniversary of the Mercy James Centre for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, named after one of her adopted daughters. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Madonna back in Malawi; now considering soccer academy

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Malawi under-20 player dies in Portugal of suspected malaria

By PETER KANJERE - Associated Press

Epic fail: Soccer refs banned after match-fixing goes wrong

By PETER KANJERE - Associated Press

FILE- In this July 11, 2017 file photo, Madonna, left, sits with her adopted children David, Stella and Mercy, at the opening of The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, located at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the city of Blantyre, Malawi. A lawyer for Madonna said Thursday July 27, 2017, that the star and her twin daughters Stella and Estere have accepted damages form the publisher of the Mail Online website over an article that was a &quot;serious invasion of privacy.&quot; Madonna sued Associated Newspapers over a January story giving details of her adoption of the 4-year-old twins from Malawi. (AP Photo Thoko Chikondi, File)

Madonna accepts damages from publisher over privacy invasion

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US musician Madonna, left, sits with her adopted children Stella, David and Mercy, at the opening of The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, located at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the city of Blantyre, Malawi, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Madonna was in Malawi on Tuesday for the official opening of a hospital children's wing funded by her charity and named after one of the four children the pop star has adopted from the impoverished southern African nation. (AP Photo Thoko Chikondi)

Madonna welcomed in Malawi as ‘daughter of this nation’

By GREGORY GONDWE - Associated Press

Lettuce growing at Lake Orchard Aquaponics Thursday, June 29, 2017 in the Town of Mosel near Haven, Wis. (Gary C. Klein /The Post-Crescent via AP)

Wisconsin students, teachers bringing aquaponics to Malawi

By PHILLIP BOCK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2016 file photo, Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the World premiere of the film &quot;The Beatles, Eight Days a Week&quot; in London. Madonna says the children’s wing at a hospital in Malawi she has been building for two years completed its first surgery last week and will officially open July 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Pediatric unit built by Madonna in Malawi to open July 11

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press

Malawi to withdraw from African Cup qualifying, has no money

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