Military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president goes missing

Malawi vice president Saulos Chilima and his wife Mary (AP)

A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others is missing, the president’s office said.

The plane carrying 51-year-old vice president Saulos Chilima left the southern African nation’s capital, Lilongwe, at 9.17am but failed to land as scheduled around 45 minutes later at Mzuzu International Airport, about 230 miles to the north.