Saulos Chilima
11 Jun 2024
President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to President Lazarus Chakwera and the people of Malawi over the deaths of Vice President Saulos Chilima and other officials in a plane crash. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Monday, in Abuja, that President Tinubu commiserated with…
11 Jun 2024
Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation's president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday, after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to bad…
11 Jun 2024
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera said Tuesday there had been no survivors when a plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others crashed into a forest. "The plane has been found and I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you all, it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy," he said, in a…
10 Jun 2024
A military aircraft carrying Malawi's vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said. "All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far," the government said in a statement. The plane, which…
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