Driven out by desperation, driven back by hate

Women waiting to buy fish from fishermen on the banks of Lake Malawi in the Mangochi district. — Joao Silva/The New York Times

ON a dirt road in a rural village in eastern Malawi, business was slow at a convenience store operating from the front of a family home.

A few kilometres up the road, two women sat beneath a thatched roof weaving palm leaves into mats for sale, but there were no buyers.