The International Monetary Fund on Monday said Malawi’s government has asked for international aid following a poor harvest of its staple maize crop. Malawi needs 2,1-million tonnes of maize each year to feed its 11-million people. Drought has reduced this year’s harvest to 1,3-million tonnes.
A group of 42 asylum seekers have arrived in this Southern African country from Somalia after a two month trek covering more than 2 200km with little food, water or rest, officials said on Wednesday. The men said they were forced to continue their walk after being refused refugee status in Tanzania and Mozambique.
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/ 10 January 2003
A senior ruling party official was recovering in a hospital on Thursday after being stoned by an angry mob who believed rumours he was harbouring vampires.
Widespread hunger, poverty, political intolerance, crime, and human rights abuses are a major threat to democracy in Malawi, according to a report issued on Friday by the country’s human rights commission.