I t's only 9 a.m. and Zainunda Wilson is already tired from shovelling sand since daybreak into a five-tonne truck on the shores of Lake Malawi. The 37-year-old sand miner has no time to admire her su ...

SALIMA/CHIKWAWA, Malawi ... On this morning, dozens of women and men were shovelling sand into trucks across the Maganga settlement on the lake's shore. At the Chingombe Stream, deep gullies ...