By Frank Phiri BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Soldiers deployed in Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre on Tuesday after voters, angered by delays and mishaps at polling stations in a hotly contested presidential election, torched voting materials and blocked roads. Incumbent President Joyce Banda, southern Africa's first female head of state, faces 11 challengers, some of whom had already cried foul in the election run-up, saying they had unearthed plots to skew the ballot. At another polling station in Blantyre, an angry crowd torched election materials when they arrived hours late and in other constituencies they blocked roads with rocks before the military arrived to back up police. 'CASHGATE' WEIGHS Banda came to power in the landlocked, impoverished nation two years ago after her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, died in office. Read More http://ift.tt/1klkkGS
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