What's going to make this nation safer is a lot of mundane, ordinary things every day.

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As the drama fades, the mundane misery of life for ordinary people continues.

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But, he warns, ordinary Malawians will measure the president's success on more mundane matters like his ability to deliver drugs to hospitals and fertiliser to farms.

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