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Warning: Buying tobacco at less than minimum prices is hazardous, president says 

Foreign tobacco buyers who are paying less than agreed-upon prices for the country's main cash crop are the "enemy of the people" and will be expelled, said the president of this African nation, whose government this week deported three of them.

President Bingu wa Mutharika's administration ordered the expulsion of a South African and three British buyers, making good on a campaign promise.

"These individuals connived to deliberately frustrate the policy of this government to improve the welfare of our people through better prices of tobacco," Mutharika said in a special address to the nation Wednesday. "They have been sabotaging the Malawi economy and have been harming the very people who grow tobacco for them to buy."

When the deportation order came, one of the four officials was already out of the country. The others left Wednesday without speaking to reporters.

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