Informal vendors rally against coronavirus lockdown in Malawi

“In Ndirande township in the commercial capital, Blantyre, vendors at the country’s largest market said the lockdown order would be devastating. ‘In the case of us vendors who live from hand-to-mouth, it would cripple us,’ Chancy Widoni, chairman of a 5,000-strong vendor group… ‘If we close the market for even one day, then we will not be able to feed our families,’ he said.”