Delegates to the just ended Public Affairs Committee (PAC) summit have told the government to immediately release and distribute maize to starving Malawians. The delegates said this after senior cabinet ministers told the conference the country had enough stocks of maize. But the delegates, who sounded concern over the food shortage situation prevailing in the […]
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 […]
Irate villagers around Nkhotakota boma on Wednesday made an impromptu protests to the office of the Admarc depot supervisor against the decision to sell out a bulk of a 300 bag maize consignment to a legislator, police officers and council staff among others leaving out ordinary poor people. They chanted freedom songs as they marched […]
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 […]
Two children have died in Dedza after eating poisonous cassava as their parents were away searching for food, the first known recorded deaths connected directly to hunger in Malawi. Mtakataka police station officer in charge Goodwin Sambo confirmed the two deaths at Mua, saying another child is battling for his life at Mua mission hospital. […]
People’s Party(PP) acting president Uladi Mussa has asked the government to immediately scrap off duty on maize and flour to allow more food in the hunger stricken country. Recent press reports indicate Police and the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) have tightened security in the border district of Mchinji to stop the importation of Zambian maize […]
An umbrella of some civil society groups in the country have asked President Peter Mutharika to declare a state of emergency over the prevailing food crisis and direct that maize should be sold at a regulated price. Unandi Banda, one of the members of Civil Society for Constructive Dialogue said the current food situation is […]
Malawi is on a crisis, press reports indicate starvation across the nation is “getting worse” by the day and fast reaching “degrading levels” as The Nation daily newspaper on Monday published a photo of multitude of people at Catholic University in Nguludi, queuing for a five-litre bucket of maize husks (madeya) that some ‘azungus’ were […]
If there is one thing any caring household and government will always ensure it has in abundance to ensure peace and harmony, it is food. In the case of Malawi, it is the staple—maize. When food is in short supply in the home, do not expect peace and harmony. The grain has been very much […]
The management of Simama Hotel a subsidiary of Simama Group of Companies, on Saturday, handed over a donation of maize worth K2.3 million to 600 hundred households in the area of Traditional Authority Tsabango in Lilongwe. The donation came as a relief to the 402 villages which are under T/A Tsabango who are part of […]
Two people have been in arrested in Mulanje district for buying maize from Admarc depot in bulks, which is against the official set quantity of a minimum of 20kgs per individual. Malawi is currently experiencing maize shortage and the food shortage situation is worsening as people are being forced to spend nights at Admarc depots […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri has come to the rescue of thousands of starving families in Zomba district by providing them with the scarce maize – the main staple. Bushiri who arrived in the country through Chileka Airport in Blantyre on Wednesday proceed to Zomba where he gave villagers a lifeline through a relief […]
After donating to Ntcheu and Dowa in the central region, leader and founder of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has once again jetted in the country via Chileka Airport for a planned series of maize donation in the Southern part of Malawi. Speaking on arrival from his base in South Africa, Bushiri […]
The Arab Republic of Egypt Tuesday donated a cheque worth MK20 Million to Malawi government as part of its contribution to the food crisis facing the country. Speaking during a cheque presentation ceremony in Lilongwe, Egyptian Ambassador to Malawi, Maher Adel El-Adawy said the food crisis facing the country is worrisome and that support from […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre in the wee hours of Tuesday intercepted a truck transporting maize from Dedza to Luchenza in Thyolo district without documentation. The law-enforcers have since arrested the lorry’s driver and his assistant who eventually attempted to bribe officers with K500. The truck registration BR 4083, according to police, was intercepted at a roadblock that […]
Malawi grain marketer Admarc has assured that the country has enough stocks of the staple food to reach the harvesting season. There are confusing statements being issued on the food status of the country. Admarc Public Relations officer Agnes Ndovi also assured that no Malawian will starve as they are doing everything possible to make […]
The country’s consumer and human rights activist, John Kapito has condemned government for being clueless, helpless and inconsiderate in finding solutions to the current food shortage the country is facing. Kapito has since branded the current shortage and higher prices of maize on the market as shame to the nation and called on government to […]
Vocal opposition lawmaker Juliana Lunguzi says government needs to stop pretending that people are not dying with starvation, saying the situation of the ground is dire. “I live on the ground people are suffering people are starving,” said Lunguzi, MP for Malawi Congress Party in Dedza East constituency. “Very unfortunate that somebody want to deny […]