A girl eats sorghum porridge as she sits in the dirt in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially ...

Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis later this year. Drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern has affected the harvest of maize, the staple food grown by nine out of 10 farming ...

Going into the markets and homes of Malawians one cannot believe it is the very country that has been going about with a bowl in hand begging for handouts. The food that is plenty now abruptly ends ...

Once again Malawi finds itself in a tight spot. A food crisis set off by erratic rains, rising food prices and economic hardships is slowly unfolding. Sadly and unexpectedly, Malawi has lost its ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AFP) – Nearly 10 percent of Malawi's 13 million people face hunger due of low yields of the main staple maize, prolonged dry spells and flooding, a report released Saturday said.

Hunger is stalking Malawi’s prisons. A study by four university academics has found that on average the country’s 12 000 prisoners receive just 17% of the recommended daily food provision and that 89% ...

Malawi has started distributing free corn and cash to more than 4 million people facing food shortages largely because of the impact of Cyclone Freddy, which washed away thousands of hectares of crops ...

In Malawi, the U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) is working to address a rising number of malnourished children amid an ongoing drought, the worst to hit southern Africa in decades. The WFP’s efforts ...

Catholics in the drought stricken African nation of Malawi say the August visit to the Vatican by the country's president, Lazarus Chakwera, reflects the importance of faith and the role that the ...

It’s lunchtime on New Year’s Day 2016 but Ellena Baziliyo has nothing to eat. All there is is water, which she draws from the nearby stream. Baziliyo, 29, is eight months pregnant. She lives in a ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday it feared hunger in Malawi, which is struggling with food shortages, a long drought and other ...