Africa News of Tuesday, 11 June 2024Source: theeastafrican.co.keSearch and rescue operations will continue until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi's vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is found, the southern African nation's president said late on Monday. Chilima, 51, was aboard a military aircraft with nine others that left Lilongwe, the capital, at 9.17 am Malawi's Office of the President and Cabinet said in an earlier statement. It said efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar had failed. The plane was unable to land at the airport due to poor visibility and was ordered to return to the capital, President Lazarus Chakwera said in a televised address to the nation. He said Malawi had reached out to neighbouring countries, and the US, Britain, Norway and the Israeli governments for support in the rescue efforts.

Source: Daily Nation June 11, 2024 14:05 UTC