The UK government has contributed about US$9.70 per child to provide school meals for about 800,000 school going children in 13 food insecure districts of the central and southern region. The funds channeled through UKaid to country of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will support 770,000 children in 683 primary schools, 5,000 children […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has threatened to sue consumer rights activist John Kapito over remarks he made that the country’s current maize scarcity is her creation. The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) boss blamed President Banda of creating the hunger situation so that she should be distributing the maize to needy people in order to […]
The head of the UN’s food agency has praised Malawi for its efforts to combat hunger, despite pressure on food prices, rising inflation and previous crop shortages. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) director general, José Graziano da Silva, recognised the advances the country has made under President Joyce Banda, but stressed the need to build on improvements in agriculture: […]
Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) boss John Kapito has blamed President Joyce Banda for emptying national maize silos thereby creating hunger in the country. Kapito has since asked President Banda to explain as to where she is getting the maize she is distributing to impoverished people. The consumer advocate and fierce critic of government in […]
The visiting Director General for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jose Graziano Da Silva, said on Tuesday that Malawi has the potential to produce enough food for domestic consumption and export. Da Silva made the observation during a joint meeting with visiting European Union (EU) Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, and Agriculture Minister Prof. Peter Mwanza […]
President Joyce Banda will from Monday re-launch crop inspection tours which used to be the country’s first head of state Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda’s trade mark in his 31-year reign. According to a statement issued by State House made available to Nyasa Times, President Banda will on Monday undertake the crop inspection and agriculture diversification project […]
The state grain marketer, ADMARC, has started rationing maize with only 500 metric tonnes in its reserves as almost two million people in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, have run out their staple food maize, which they grind to prepare their meals. Most Admarc deports have run out of maize as […]
Executive members in the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) have faulted President Joyce Banda’s maize flour distribution exercise saying it is enhancing hunger situation in the families of the beneficiary. Speaking at the party’s rally held Saturday in Ndirande-Malabada constituency in the commercial capital Blantyre, the UDF top gurus, Moses Dossi and party’s regional governor for […]
President Joyce Banda and her governing People’s Party (PP) bade farewell to 2012 on New Year’s Eve with a massive ‘Development Rally’ that undoubtedly infused in them a sense of much hope, politically. Throng of thousands of people attended the public meeting, the first addressed by the President in the district, believed to be opposition […]
Malawi’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has asked President Joyce Banda to subsidise maize price to ensure that every needy Malawian affords the commodity. DPP’s advice comes in the wake of the President’s relief flour and maize distribution exercise to the deprived masses which the party has observed is only benefiting few individuals primarily […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has ordered police and the Ministry of Agriculture to seal all borders to stop maize exports following reports that the commodity is being taken out of country through Karonga to neibhouring countries like Tanzania and Kenya. The calls comes after CCAP Synod of Livingstonia General Secretary Reverend Levi Nyondo during during […]
Peoples Party (PP) deputy director of youth Steve Njobvuyalema has said the President’s food distribution exercise is not meant to gain her political mileage but it is a genuine humanitarian response to the hunger situation in Malawi. Malawi’s President Mrs. Joyce Banda initiated the maize distribution exercise to help vulnerable communities to mitigate the effects of […]
Consumer Association of Malawi (Cama) Executive Director, John Kapito has blamed President, Joyce Banda for influencing the increase of maize prices on the market through her continuous sentiments on hunger situation in the country. Private traders are currently selling maize at between K4, 000 and K4, 500, higher than government set price of K3, 000 […]
The Governments of Malawi and Ireland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for support to a social cash transfer programme and for replenishment of the strategic grain reserves. Speaking during the signing ceremony on Monday in Lilongwe, Ireland Ambassador to Malawi Liz Higgins said the MoU will allow the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) […]
Some angry people in Bangwe township – one of the densely populated townships in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre – Saturday evening burned down chairs used by the ruling People’s Party (PP) officials and Cabinet Ministers during the political rally which President Joyce Banda held earlier in the afternoon in the township. The residents were particularly […]
Chairperson of the Agriculture and Natural resources Committee of Parliament David Luka has disclosed his committee will undertake a national wide inspection tour to unveil irregularities marring this year’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) following emerging reports of fake coupons, theft and sand mixed fertilizer. Luka told Capital Radio his team will travel across the country to […]
An 80-year-old Namatchonesa Kachere will live to remember December 1, 2012 for the remainder of her life. To some, it was just a normal day but to this old granny, it was a day that she received food that will help her gain strength to work in the fields as this is also the start […]
A survey purporting to show people’s views on President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s maize distribution programme across the country is fake and a campaign gimmick aimed at discrediting the President in her benevolent work, according to State House. The Nation newspaper was during the past week asking people to vote YES if they agree that President Banda […]