The ruling Peoples Party (PP) on Friday involved traditional chiefs to back-up President Joyce Banda’s practice of giving out handouts especially maize at political rallies. The party hired 11 chiefs from southern region led by Paramount Chief Lundu to defend President Banda’s continuous tendency of giving out maize at a time when the country’s grain-marketer, […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Uladi Mussa is under fire from chiefs in his home district for allegedly diverting about 750 bags of maize meant for Salima Central Constituency to donate to a place of his choice. According to the chiefs 1500 bags of Maize were destined for the constituency but Mussa intervened […]
Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has bemoaned President Joyce Banda’s continued maize handouts at political rallies, describing the tendency as shameful and abuse of consumer rights. Cama’s utterance comes at a time when the country’s main grain marketer, Agricultural Development, Corporation and Marketing (Admarc) is rationing maize due to short supply and inorder to beat […]
Government of the United Arab Emirates through the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has donated 13 500 metric tonnes of maize that will benefit about 7 500 hunger stricken families. The donation follows a visit by President Joyce Banda in October last year. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, President Banda said she was […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is demanding a probe into the alleged disappearance of hundreds of tonnes of maize that was declared rotten and unfit for both human and animal consumption but is not accounted for to date. MCP deputy president Richard Msowoya said this during whistle stop tours he conducted at Iponga, Chakwera Village, Mwenilondo, […]
The Joyce Banda administration has been aware of the maize situation in the Country for some time – evidenced by its announcement in early 2013 to procure maize from Zambia. In late November or early December 2013 the government was reported in the national papers that, they will be funding Admarc to procure maize from […]
Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has warned Malawians to brace up for tough times in the new year following upsurge of maize prices on the market. With country’s grain marketer, Admarc currently rationing the never-available maize to only 10 kilogrammes per customer, vendors on parallel market have hiked prices with a 50kg bag at between […]
Amid reports that about two million Malawians are facing hunger due to low yields of staple food last year, some peasants in Phalombe district have been severely hit after they lost their maize to army worms. About 100 hectares of maize garden have been devastated by the developing armyworms which launched the damage early this […]
The government of Malawi has received a donation of US$1.3 million for Ireland to help the country in addressing hunger crisis. Irish Ambassador Liz Higgins says,:“The Government of Ireland has been monitoring the humanitarian situation, and, recognising the increased need, provides this additional support to the government’s planned MVAC response. This support is consistent with […]
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security James Munthali has assured the public that Government through Agriculture Development Marketing Cooperation (Admarc) and National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has procured 66 000 metric tonnes of maize for sale and humanitarian purposes. The Minister said the recommended amount of maize for the country to cater for the whole […]
Malawian President Joyce Banda has again assured that no person will die of hunger in the wake of reported food shortages in the country, saying her administration will provide relief food. Banda , who faces elections next year, said Wednesday when presided over the official elevation ceremony of Chief Chiwalo of Phalombe who is now […]
The Malawi government will commemorate the World Food Day with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and World Food Programme (WFP) at Lisasadzi Residential Training Centre in Kasungu district on Friday, October 18, 2013. According to FAO Director General, Jose Graziano da Silva, this year’s theme-“Sustainable Food System for Food Security and […]
President Dr. Joyce Banda has arrayed fears that any Malawian will die of hunger in the wake of reported food shortages in the country. President Banda assured the nation that her government is doing everything possible to ensure that food supplies reach every household that is in need. The Malawi leader was speaking at Balaka […]
Vice President, Khumbo Kachali, says Malawi has enough stocks of maize in its grain reserves to help feed the citizenry from now till the next rainy season. The Vice President said this on Monday afternoon when he made a visit to the maize silos at Kanengo in Lilongwe to inspect the amount of maize available […]
Malawi has advised its people ‘not to panic’ as a result of looming hunger because it has already worked out a mechanism to avert the situation. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security James Kabifya Munthali said this at senior group village Headman Uledi headquarters in the area of Chief Nthalire in Chitipa District when he visited […]
As hunger threatens millions of Malawians, government has said that it has no option but to go for rationing of staple food maize . It is said that almost 2 million people in the country are food insecure in at least 21 districts across the country and are likely to need food hand outs from […]
The state-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has released an annual human rights report for the country cataloging rights abuses including faulting the government on the suppression of the media and the involvement of ruling party officials in the distribution of humanitarian food. MHRC chairperson Sophie Kalinde launched the report in Lilongwe together with commissioners […]
The Department of Disaster Management Affairs has engaged various stakeholders to discuss possible relief food distribution to vulnerable households which are likely to be affected by hunger this year. In its National Food Security Forecast for April this year to March 2014, the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Mvac) projected that over 1. 4 million people […]