Food Insecurity Affects Over 8M in Malawi

El Nino-induced drought decimated this year’s harvests throughout Southern Africa, and Malawi’s government now says the number of people there who will need food aid has tripled to over eight million.    The latest figures are a huge leap from the 2.8 million that the government said needed food aid in April when President Peter Mutharika declared the state of national disaster.   Agriculture Minister George Chaponda says the numbers given in April were based on a partial...

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