Malawi g overnment is battling to raise US$280 million for relief food for its starving six million people as response from donors has been poor on relief food. Disaster Department Communications Officer Jeremiah Mphande said so far the government has raised just US$116 million out of the projected US$395 million. “Out of the US$395 million, […]
Malawi has received a donation of about 6,600 metric tons of Chinese rice in response to calls for emergency food assistance for 6.5 million starving Malawians. President Peter Mutharika received the donation from Chinese Ambassador to Malawi, Wang Shiting at Kamuzu Palace in the capital, Lilongwe on Thursday. Mutharika said the donated rice would go […]
Malawi Vice president Saulosi Chilima on Thursday kicked off the distribution of relief food to starving 6.5 million people hit hard by natural calamities. Launching the much awaited relief food program in Nsanje, one of the worst hit districts where 40, 000 people have been affected, Chilima warned civil servants who will try to mess […]
US vice president’s spouse Jill Tracy Biden is in Malawi to drum up support for humanitarian causes as the country faces severe food shortages. Dr Biden was expected to be joined by World Food Programme executive director. Biden said Malawi needs assistance to avert the starvation of 8.5 million people who face acute food shortages due […]
State grain dealer, Admarc has come under intense fire from the UN and the United States for lack of transparency. UNDP resident representative in Malawi Amakobe Sande and US ambassador to Malawi Virgnia Palmer told President Peter Mutharika in the face on Wednesday at Kamuzu Palace in Blantyre that Admarc is not open and involved […]
The Malawi government has set aside $50 million to assist people who will be hit by hunger this year until the next farming season. President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika revealed this in Lilongwe Wednesday, when he launched the Food Insecurity Response Plan whose objective is to direct efforts in assisting over 6 million Malawians who […]
As the hunger continues biting hard the Lower Shire districts, women and children are on risk of crocodile attacks as they are always found in shire river searching for water plants called Nyika to feed themselves as they run away from police torture in ADMARC markets. A visit by the Malawi News Agency along the […]
The influential Catholic church has called on the government to take action to tackle a national crisis of rising hunger and food poverty, as latest figures suggest almost half of Malawi population is unable to meet their food requirements. In a statement issued by the Catholic bishops through their body, Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), […]
It’s not a joke. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika means his word by saying people should eat mice to cope with a nationwide food crisis as on Friday he retaliated his call during political meetings in the estern city of Zomba. President Mutharika recently told hungry Malawians to eat mice in a bid to curb the scourge […]
United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Development (DfID) has given Malawi £24 million (about K23 billion) as a contribution to the government’s National Disaster Response Plan, the British High Commission in Lilongwe has said . A statement made available to Nyasa Times says the UK Development Minister Nick Hurd , confirmed the support on Wednesday during a […]
The past week has been full of social media hype in reaction to what State President Arthur Peter Mutharika said in Limbuli last weekend when he advisedMalawians to diversify their dietary options in a bid to enhance their nutrition and avert the looming hunger in their households. The selective perception and misrepresentation of the speech […]
Grain reserves have now been depleted and the country within a month run out of maize which will trigger inflation and the cost of life. The general manager of the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) Nasinuko Saukira has said only four out of the 36 silos have maize which means the country has only 20000 […]
Minister of Agriculture George Chaponda has told parliament that irrigation experts who are supposed to initiate a massive irrigation project to tap water from Lake Malawi are in the country. Chaponda however could not give details on when the work would start of tapping the vast fresh Lake Malawi waters into fields for farming to […]
Information, Communication Technology and Civic Education Minister who is also government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati has hit back at some Malawians faulting President Peter Mutharika in what she calls ‘innocent things’ including jokes. Kaliati said the remarks made by President Mutharika at a recent development rally in Mulanje that people should eat ‘mice’ as part of […]
A United Arab Emirates based company, Al Manhal International Group wants to support a “green belt” programme of Malawi government to enable the country, in the long run, to say goodbye to hunger and international food aid. Al Manhal wants to support the Greenbelt program that can provide sustainable food products and brand Malawi as […]
President Peter Mutharika on Saturday asked millions of starving Malawians to start eating grasshoppers and mice as coping mechanism that can work in the current food situation, saying time of depending on maize is over. Malawi is facing acute maize shortage blamed on poor harvests last growing season as a result of the twin problem […]
Government through the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC) has released an annual food security assessment which shows that a minimum of 6.5 million people, or 39 percent of the country’s projected population of 16.8 million, will not be able to meet their annual food requirements during the 2016/17 consumption period. This represents an increase of […]
Leading Japanese model and UN World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador Against Hunger, Kurara Chibana, says she is impressed over recovery efforts undertaken by Malawian communities affected by last year’s floods and more recently, by drought. The Japanese celebrity said this during her recent visit to various WFP projects in Malawi to see for herself how […]