Traders are smuggling increasing quantities of charcoal from Mozambique’s north-western province of Tete into Malawi, where deforestation and stricter legislation means high quality charcoal is in short supply. “We no longer have natural trees in Malawi to produce quality charcoal like that we are getting from Mozambique,” Robert Longwe, a charcoal trader in Blantyre, told…...
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