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Malawi Deploys Military to Protect Its Fast-dwindling Forests

Malawi's government is trying a new way to protect its fast-dwindling forests: Sending in the army. With deforestation threatening the capital's water supply, the government has launched 24-hour military patrols of the country's major forests, with authorisation to arrest loggers and confiscate their equipment, said Sangwani Phiri, a spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining. The move is "a bid to avert unwarranted illegal cutting down of...


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