Court injunction stalls development plan for 10 years in campaign

Court injunction stalls development plan for 10 years in campaign

Weary from decades of neglect, many buildings in Blantyre and Limbe’s central business districts are visibly failing: cracked walls, leaning sun‑baked bricks strapped with wires, collapsing ceilings and rusting iron sheets. And in between some of the cracks, there are plants sprouting. Narrow alleys reek of urine and shelter street‑connected children. Vendors and pedestrians squeeze through corridors where loose timber and falling brickwork thre…