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BUSINESS /47<br />
The five biggest<br />
wildlife reserves<br />
in sq km<br />
1. Nyika<br />
National<br />
Park<br />
3,237<br />
Tourism<br />
Malawi has high<br />
potential for tourism<br />
development. In 2014,<br />
tourism contributed<br />
4.5 percent to<br />
Malawi’s GDP. Most<br />
visitors come from<br />
South Africa.<br />
Top five imports & exports in 2015<br />
Import<br />
Source: constative.com / The Nation Source: visitmalawi.mw / whc.unesco.org / worldatlas.com<br />
2. Kasungu<br />
National<br />
Park<br />
3. Vwaza<br />
March<br />
Wildlife<br />
Reserve<br />
4. Lengwe<br />
National<br />
Park<br />
5. Liwonde<br />
National<br />
Park<br />
Malawi has nine national<br />
parks. Liwonde is the most<br />
popular for boat safaris and for<br />
spotting wildlife like elephants,<br />
antelopes, black rhinos,<br />
leopards, lions and birds.<br />
Trivia<br />
2,071<br />
1,036<br />
906<br />
570<br />
In Nsamala, women<br />
occupy 197 seats<br />
on the local<br />
development<br />
committee. Men<br />
occupy 135.<br />
Lake Malawi<br />
National<br />
Park is<br />
UNESCO<br />
World<br />
Heritage<br />
listed.<br />
Set in the<br />
Western<br />
Rift Valley,<br />
the lake is<br />
one of the<br />
deepest in<br />
the world.<br />
Malawi was one of the<br />
countries worst affected by the<br />
big El Niño-induced drought, from<br />
2014-2016,<br />
with 40 percent<br />
of the population<br />
requiring food relief.<br />
The plantations<br />
At Malawi’s coffee, tea, sugar and<br />
rubber plantations, it’s possible<br />
to do walking, biking and<br />
photography tours.<br />
Malawians go<br />
fishing when it’s<br />
full moon because<br />
that’s when they<br />
believe the biggest<br />
catches are.<br />
706 m<br />
The<br />
country’s<br />
nickname is<br />
“the warm heart<br />
of Africa”.<br />
1. Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped 435<br />
Export<br />
amounts x US$ 1 million<br />
Malawi<br />
2. Raw cane sugar 94<br />
4. Dried peas, shelled 56<br />
3. Black tea 62<br />
1. Petroleum oils 235<br />
5. Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped 53<br />
2. Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products 120<br />
5. New stamps; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes 50<br />
3. Urea 86<br />
4. Mineral or chemical fertilizers 72<br />
Source: wits.worldbank.org
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