Malawi's ex-president Banda returns after four-year exile: AFP

BLANTYRE, Malawi – Malawi's former president, Joyce Banda, returned home on Saturday after four years of self-imposed exile, despite facing the threat of arrest over corruption allegations, an AFP journalist witnessed. 

Banda -- only the second woman to lead a country in Africa -- arrived at Blantyre's airport on a flight from Johannesburg around midday, where she was greeted by hundreds of supporters of her People's Party. 
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