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Mar 2018
In Chigalu and Chikuli, west of Blantyre City, bare crop fields and hills where whirlwinds blow away fertile soils as gullies deepen flash past.
The countryside is losing forests as thousands of charcoal head for the energy-starved city on a rugged shortcut between Blantyre and Nkula Hydropower Plant.
At Kameza Roundabout the locals are seen pushing bicycles carrying massive bags of charcoal as persistent power blackouts deepen the appetite for charcoal for cooking and heating.
This personifies a national crisis as Malawi has the highest deforestation rate on southern Africa at two percent.
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