Malawi's electoral commission appealed for "peace and calm" on Wednesday as it tallied ballots following a historic poll to re-elect a president after Peter Mutharika's victory was overturned.
Voters in Malawi went to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in just over a year after the Constitutional Court dramatically ruled that last year's polls were fraught with "grave and widespread" irregularities.
The cancellation of Mutharika's victory was historic as it made Malawi just the second country south of the Sahara to have presidential poll results set aside, after Kenya in 2017.
The chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission, Chifundo Kachale, said votes from 5 002 polling stations were being tallied on Wednesday.
Mutharika has accused the opposition of inciting violence following isolated incidents which the police and electoral commission said had not affected the election.
