Opposition People’s Party (PP) has maintained its pressure on government to ensure maize is available in all Admarc depots and faces an unspecified action should the government fail to do so within 30 days. PP acting president Uladi Mussa said in addition, the opposition has given President Peter Mutharika up to 90 days to improve […]
World Vision Malawi and government officials have urged communities to champion modern farming technologies to avert hunger and climate change. This comes amid a joint agricultural field day which Chigodi Area Programme (AP) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development held in Chitekwere Extension Planning Area (EPA) in Lilongwe few days ago. Assistant […]
Some civil rights leaders in Malawi are organising to hold a protest march on March 10 to force the government release maize in Admarc depots for starving Malawians and improve the ailing economy that has skyrocketed the cost of living. Billy Mayaya, one of the organisers of the peaceful march said it is a Republican […]
The Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has asked government to order private traders to release maize to the public and break the vicious cycle of hoarding the grain for anticipated inflated prices. The consumer rights body also said it is shocked that government is importing maize when there is a lot of maize in the […]
United States Ambassador to Malawi, Virginia Palmer has announced an additional donation of US$27 million (20 billion kwacha) of food assistance from the US Government to support vulnerable, food insecure communities in Malawi. In a media statement emailed to Nyasa Times from the US Embassy to Malawi, Palmer announced the donation following the discussions she […]
Malawi will import 50,000 tonnes of the staple maize from Tanzania to avert hunger after a drought that affected 2.8 million people in the southern African nation, state officials said on Monday. Agriculture is Malawi’s mainstay, accounting for a third of the economy and providing livelihoods for 80 percent of the population of about 15 […]
Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Karonga Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church has stopped the laity from contributing to church projects in “paper Sunday” to allow them utilise the little cash they have to buy food in their homes. Bishop Martin Mtumbuka made the announcement on Saturday February 27 during the launch of the diocese’s […]
In an interesting twist to the calls for President Arthur Peter Mutharika to resign have cropped up. Snr Chief Kalonga of Salima says it’s ‘sin’ and climate change that must be blamed for Malawi’s social-economic woes. In a second phase of the senior traditional leaders meetings to dismiss calls that Mutharika resigns, Snr. Chief Kalonga […]
Member of Parliament for Mzimba West (PP) Harry Mkandawire said in parliament this week that the acute shortage of maize in most parts of Malawi, exacerbated by the dramatic increase in the prices of the staple food, has left thousands of desperate Malawians to resort to eating maize bran or Madeya meant for pigs. Malawi […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dedza East member of parliament, Juliana Lunguzi has said the Peter Mutharika government should stop living a lie that no one will die of hunger in the country, saying already four children have starved to death in her constituency. Lunguzi said in parliament that four “kids” have died with hunger-related illnesses […]
Independent memberof parliament for Karonga Central, Frank Tumpale Mwenefumbo has accused an “overzealous” Minister of Information Jappie Mhango for politicising the current food shortage in the country. Speaking in parliament, Mwenefumbo cited Mhango as one of the cabinet ministers who politicised the food situation in Karonga when he came to donate maize to the district […]
The Japanese government has made a contribution of US$5 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for food assistance in Malawi as the country faces the worst food insecurity in a decade due to weather-related shocks. The WFP says in a statement that most of the funds will go towards WFP’s relief operation […]
Malawi former vice president Khumbo Kachali who is now Member of Parliament for Mzimba South West has told parliament that he is at pains with the food situation in the country. There are long queues of maize buyers at state grain trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) depots throughout the country because of shortage of […]
The first round of 2015/16 Agriculture Production Estimates Survey has projected the national maize production at 2,719,425 metric tons, 2.0 percent lower than the 2014/15 final round estimate of 2,776,277 metric tons. In a statement, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development said although the estimates may not conclusively inform the ultimate agricultural production, it […]
Business was stand still in Mzuzu on Monday morning when the group of youth launched peaceful protests against President Peter Mutharika’s government, defying heavy police presence in the city centre. The youth staged the demonstration demanding the DPP led government to come up with drastic measures to solve the food shortage and economic crisis that […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Food Security Dr Allan Chiyembekeza has said intensive irrigation agriculture remains the only realistic hope to curb food shortage in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) in light of erratic rainfall patterns caused by climate change. Chiyembekeza was speaking in an interview in Lilongwe on Tuesday on the sidelines […]
Ministry of Trade and Industry has suspended duty on maize flour just days after People’s Party (PP) acting president Uladi Mussa asked the government to do so in view of critical food shortages in the country. In a statement, the ministry says the suspension is of immediate effect. The ministry is therefore asking maize flour […]
United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme has on Wednesday sent out an SOS on Malawi’s food crisis, frantically appealing for US$38 million, saying the situation is extremely dire. In a statement, WFP says the situation has now reached unprecedented levels and the UN body is urgently looking for the US$38 million to buy […]