{"id":50130,"date":"2025-09-20T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50130"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:42:48","slug":"malawi-police-arrest-eight-for-alleged-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50130","title":{"rendered":"Malawi police arrest eight for alleged election fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police in Malawi have arrested eight people for alleged electoral fraud as the country waits for the final results of Tuesday&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspector General Merlyne Yolamu said the suspects, who were working as data entry clerks, had been trying to manipulate the figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malawi&#8217;s 2019 election was marred by controversy when the highest court annulled then President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s victory, citing widespread irregularities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, Malawi&#8217;s electoral commission is on high alert for any potential issues. Official tallies, so far, suggest Mutharika is leading the race for the presidency with incumbent Lazarus Chakwera in second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Police in Malawi have arrested eight people for alleged electoral fraud as the country waits for the final results of Tuesday&#8217;s general election. Inspector General Merlyne Yolamu said the suspects, who were working as data entry clerks, had been trying to manipulate the figures. Malawi&#8217;s 2019 election was marred by controversy when the highest court annulled then President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s victory, citing widespread irregularities. As a result, Malawi&#8217;s electoral commission is on high alert for any potential issues. Official tallies, so far, suggest Mutharika is leading the race for the presidency with incumbent Lazarus Chakwera in second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50132,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130\/revisions\/50132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}