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President Joyce Banda has said she wants Malawi to overturn its ban on homosexual acts - the first African country to do so since 1994.
Two Malawian men were sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2010 after saying they were getting married.
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The BBC's Raphael Tenthani in the main city, Blantyre, says the president has the support of a majority of MPs and so should be able to get parliament to overturn the law.
However, he says it will be an unpopular move with many church leaders, as well as the wider population in this conservative country.
After a storm of international condemnation, Mr Mutharika did pardon the two Malawian men on "humanitarian grounds only" but said they had "committed a crime against our culture, against our religion, and against our laws".
Homosexual acts are illegal in most African countries.
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BBC News - Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says