State controlled produce buyer and seller Admarc has managed to buy 200,000 metric tons of maize out of the targeted 300, 000 metric tons. Admarc general manager Foster Mlumbe’s revelation comes at a time President Peter Mutharika and his DPP-led government have been assuring Malawians that Admarc will ensure adequate maize stocks in its food […]
The International Women’s Association of Malawi (IWAM) has made about K1.2 million in a food fest organized in Lilongwe on Saturday 4 June to raise funds for various charity works. The amount is an addition to the K11million IWAM raised in what has been a successful year from June 2015. IWAM is composed of women […]
Mary Makhiringa -Mana State Vice President Dr Saulosi Klaus Chilima on Thursday emphasized on the need for Malawi to fight hunger and under nutrition, saying if not national and global development goals will not be achieved. Chilima said, if citizens do not have food to eat and are under nutritious, a lot of government’s resources […]
Gomezgani Wanda -Mana Member of Parliament for Nsanje South West, Joshep Chidanti Malunga has called for collective effort among MPs to address the country’s hunger situation. Malunga made the call in his contribution to President Peter Mutharika’s State-of- the-Nation Address when he opened the 2016-2017 Budget Meeting of Parliament. He said although the hunger situation […]
Mphatso Nkhoma – Nyasa Times No room to dose any longer, government has assured Malawians that it is doing everything possible to ensure that no Malawian dies due to hunger in the 2016/2017 agricultural production year, as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda said 1,290,000 metric tonnes is needed to avert worsening […]
Government of Malawi and the People’s Republic of China Wednesday signed a grant agreement that will see Beijing providing humanitarian food assistance to Malawi and also provide 100 police vehicles. Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Goodall Gondwe and Chinese Ambassador to Malawi, Wang Shi-Ting signed the agreement on behalf of the two countries in […]
The Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) has called on government to set up a framework law on Right to Food to criminalize any violations on people access to food, politicization of food, demanding sexual favors in exchange for food, among others. Cisanet has since applauded government for reinforcing regulations of trading of agriculture produce in the […]
International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) secretary general Elhadj As Sy has said the Malawi hunger situation is dire and asked citizens to diversify their eating habits. Geneva-based Sy, has been in the country to appreciate the food insecurity situation with the aim of launching a food security emergency appeal. Addressing a news conference after […]
For four months Ripisai Manonge and her four orphan grandchildren and great grandchild have survived on half a dollar a day. Now she can’t go on, she says. On November 25 last year, the 80-year-old sold the last of her cattle for $350. That amount has kept 11-year-old Lewis Mukonya in class and provided food […]
More Malawians will this year relief food than initially thought as the number of hunger stricken Malawians has jumped from 2.8 million to 8.2 million but the government says it is already working on the figure. Agriculture minister George Chaponda told a meeting of stakeholders on Wednesday in Lilongwe that a new survey has now […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Dr. George Chaponda has announced that government has initiated short, medium and long term measures to reverse the loaming food security crisis in the country. Chaponda told journalists in Lilongwe on Friday that measures are being taken to offset the current food gap and to avoid the recurrence […]
President Peter Mutharika has blasted leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera as “irresponsible” and reassured Malawians that no one will die of hunger this year although hunger is expected to be worse than last year, saying his government will go as far as Mexico to buy the staple food. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace recently, Mutharika said […]
Opposition legislator Felix Jumbe has become the lone opposition figure to back President Peter Mutharika claims that no one has died of hunger and the country had enough maize stocks this last year and this year. Jumbe’s comments are likely to pity him on a collision course with his leader, Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi […]
United States of America has become the first country to pledge relief food to Malawi a day after President Peter Mutharika declared a state of national disaster. US ambassador to Malawi Virginia Palmer said on Wednesday her country will make available K38.5 billion for the relief food. However she demanded transparency and accountability from the […]
Oone of Malawi’s tobacco buyers, JTI, on Wednesday, said it will provide relief food stuffs to over 17 000 people affected by hunger in the next two to three months. JTI Malawi Managing Director Fries Vanneste said when he launched the programme at Liwinga Primary School in TA Kalolo’s area in Lilongwe his company decided to […]
For about a year now the Government of Malawi is operating on a Zero deficit budget. This is a situation where western donor nations have decided to withdraw their yearly budgetary support and instead they are indirectly providing their support through civil societies and other agencies. There has been a shift in budgetary support due […]
Rights activist Billy Mayaya has cancelled the much publicised March 10 maize scarcity peaceful protests, saying police have forced the organisers of the demos to cancel it. Mayaya planned endless vigil against President Peter Mutharika from allegedly being insensitive to maize shortage and economic problems In an interview with Nyasa Times on Wednesday, Mayaya parried […]
Malawi government has been urged to heed the warning contained in the report from the Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) of the food crisis ravaging the poor southern African nation and “act now”. A Fewsnet report released on March 4, 2016 says the maize stocks in the country will only last the nation up […]