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Malawi: presidential election re-run vote underway

Malawians are voting again after months of controversy.

Malawian voters defy the coronavirus pandemic to return to the polls for the second time in just over a year after President Peter Mutharika's re-election was annulled in a dramatic court ruling.

In Zimbabwe, the only radiotherapy machine which was left in Harare has stopped working. We hear from one cancer patient on how this has affected her treatment and her life.

Is there any chance that wildlife markets also known as wet markets in Africa will close, following calls from the UN that they are hazardous to human health? We visit one in Nigeria.

(Photo: a woman voting at the Malembo polling station. Credit: Getty Images)

23 minutes

Last on

Tue 23 Jun 202015:06GMT

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  • Tue 23 Jun 202015:06GMT

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