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Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima has died in a plane crash. President Lazarus Chakwera announced on Tuesday that the military aircraft with Chilima and nine other people on board, which had been missing since Monday, had now been found in the Chikangawa forest north of the capital Lilongwe. There were no survivors in the completely destroyed aircraft, Chakwera said in a televised address. He spoke of a terrible tragedy and honoured Chilima as an exemplary politician and human being. Chilima and his companions had taken off from Lilongwe on Monday morning, but due to bad weather condition…