For Some Malawi Business Owners, Closer China Ties Has Meant Losing the Shop

Business owners in the southeast African nation say their government has done little to help, to avoid upsetting Beijing

A view of a street in Limbe township, which hosts the busiest marketplace in Blantyre, Malawi, on Oct. 6, 2018. Charles Pensulo/Special to The Epoch Times

BLANTYRE, Malawi—A group of business owners in Malawi’s financial hub may be feeling the side effects of the southeast African nation’s government getting closer to China, with local business owners getting evicted from their places of business in favor of Chinese business owners.

Kiliro Mbisa is one of six business owners in Blantyre, Malawi’s center of finance, who have recently been evicted from a Chinese-owned building they had set up business in.