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Fishermen braving the choppy waters in search of their daily bounty
For countless generations, Lake Malawi has been their lifeblood - providing sustenance and a means to make a living.
But fishing communities like this are under threat along the lake shore
as overfishing and climate change takes its toll. And now they are
facing a new challenge - oil.
The largely dormant dispute resurfaced in 2011, when Malawi awarded a
British company, Surestream Petroleum, a licence to drill for oil and
gas in the contested territory.
Cassius Chiwambo
Head of Oil and Gas, Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining
I know governments of Malawi and Tanzania are actually engaging each
other in order to make sure that the impasse is actually closed.
Local fishermen fear the worst. They are worried that oil exploration will pollute the lake, kill the fish and their way of life.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. The government is
keen to capitalise on oil. But a local think tank doesn't seem to
harbour much optimism in the current state of the economy.
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