Malawi vote recount may take two months - election official


  • World
  • Monday, 26 May 2014

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi is only likely to have an official result of its chaotic May 20 election in two months, as the Malawi Electoral Commission embarks on a process to manually count the votes, a senior official said on Monday.

The High Court on Saturday overturned President Joyce Banda's decree to annul the election that had raised the spectre of violence in the impoverished southern African country.

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