Malawi government is assuring people in the country that it will continue to distribute the country’s staple food maize to the vulnerable and needy who are hit by food shortages. According to the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee report of October 2012, there are about 2 million Malawians facing hunger in this country. Information and Civic […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda on Thursday vowed to continue distributing food to needy Malawians across the country and that no-one can stop her, apparently referring to critics who accuse her of “politicizing” the exercise. Speaking when she addressed a rally in Mulanje Pasani Constituency, President Banda said the hunger situation in this country is at […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda, under JB’s Initiative to Combat Hunger, on Friday distributed bags of maize to 600 vulnerable people from the area of Traditional Authority Nankumba in lakeshore district of Mangochi. The President made the donation at Chikoko Bay State Lodge Mini Stadium. “The levels of the food crisis in our country today calls […]
Leaders of Malawi’s biggest Christian church movement, the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), have voiced their official stand on current “contemporary issues” affecting Malawi. In a statement issued Thursday entitled: ‘Our Nation and Contemporary Issues Affecting Our Lives’, the clergy have tackled on issue of homosexuality, the looming hunger, the Lake Malawi border dispute with neighboring Tanzania, […]
The United Nations (UN) has made a commitment to help Malawi develop long term resilience over the country’s food situation to avert future crisis. United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark who is on a three- day- development visit to Malawi told journalists after she had an audience with President Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace in […]
Malawi is among the five countries that will benefit from an Australia government’s Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) to provide the African continent with agricultural expertise in a bid to increase food security. Six countries – 5 of them in Africa – will receive grants totalling $177 million from the GAFSP in 2012/2013. […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi died on April 5 of a heart attack at the age of 78. His countrymen, suffering a massive economic and political crisis, seem to have declared good riddance. Some of his rogue allies apparently tried to hold on to power after his death, but democracy prevailed with the installation […]