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Malawi's tobacco earnings jump 88 pct this year  

Malawi expects revenues from tobacco, its main foreign exchange earner, to rise 88 percent this year to about $348 million from $185 million last year, officials said on Wednesday.

Tobacco accounts for over 70 percent of exports and 15 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in this poverty-stricken southern African country.

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