Malawi: 25 presidents for AU boss' wedding

About 25 Heads of States and Governments have been invited to attend the wedding ceremony between the African Union (AU) chair and Malawi president Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika and former tourism minister, Callista Chapola-Chimombo this Saturday, according to a statement from the State House.
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State House spokesperson Albert Mungomo said the 25 leaders are from different countries and other foreign dignitaries who will be part of the 4,500 invited guests attending the wedding.

“The idea is to have a lot of people to attend the officiating and thereafter, the reception at State House,” Mungomo was quoted in the local media.

Names of invitees especially the special guests are still not public.

The President and his fiancée will receive marriage sacrament from the Catholic Church at Civo Stadium. The reception will be held at the official residence, New State House in Lilongwe.

Mutharika, 76, who lost his wife Ethel, 30, to cancer in 2007 and Chapola-Chimombo, 47, herself a widow engaged on February 14.

They both have children from their previous marriages.