The party of Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima, who was killed this week in a plane crash, on Thursday demanded an investigation.
Chilima died on Monday alongside eight others when a military aircraft on an internal flight crashed into Malawi’s Chikangawa Forest in dense fog.
His party, the United Transformation Movement (UTM), allied with President Lazarus Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in the 2020 presidential election, fielding a joint ticket.
But the alliance that brought the pair to office is now under pressure, with UTM leaders demanding answers from government ministers over the accident.