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Malawi: Poor Pushed to Brink of Hunger in Malawi, UN Agency Warns
allAfrica, 28 May 2022
Soaring food prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are pushing poor people to the brink of hunger in Malawi, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Read more »
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Malawi: Chakwera Joins Global Leaders for Economic Crisis Amid Russia-Ukraine War
Nyasa Times, 23 May 2022
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera Monday joined global leaders and key economic players at the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where… Read more »
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Malawi: President Chakwera Admits Eastern Region Hunger Woes
Nyasa Times, 13 September 2021
President Lazarus Chakwera has admitted the hunger situation the eastern region is facing and has assured people in the region that his government will not relent in assisting all… Read more »
Poor Pushed to Brink of Hunger in Malawi - UN
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that soaring food prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are pushing poor people to the brink of hunger in Malawi. The agency says nearly 400,000 Malawians were already food insecure due to floods and droughts and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the southern African nation.
In the last three months bakery owners revealed that the retail price of a 50-kilogram bag of wheat flour has risen by 42% and between October 2021 and April 2022, petrol prices rose by 54% and diesel by 64%. According to the UN, Malawi has a fragile economy, and with a population of 19 million it has the fourth-highest percentage of people living in extreme poverty in the world.
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Malawi is doing worse on reducing poverty, hunger, and unemployment and other indicators, according to a recent Afrobarometer Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Scorecard for the ... Read more »
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A total of 1 062 674 people, out of the total estimated Malawi rural population of 14 747 257 will not be able to meet their annual food requirements during the 2019/20 consumption ... Read more »
