Could Malawi's historic re-run election inspire Africa?

The opposition triumph in Malawi's recent landmark election re-run after last year's fraudulent polls were overturned could spur similar democratic change across the continent, analysts and historians say. Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party comfortably won the June 23 election with 58.5% of the vote - beating Peter Mutharika, whose re-election last year was nullified by the courts over "widespread and systematic" irregularities....