Blantyre, 04 October, 2023 / 5:32 pm (ACI Africa).
The people of God in Malawi are reportedly staring at starvation amid signs of rising food prices and scarcity of grain in the Southern African nation.
In a Tuesday, October 3 statement following their quarterly meeting, officials of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Malawi drawn from all Dioceses in the country castigate the government for failing to procure enough fertilizer under the Affordable Input Programme (AIP).
“Malawi faces a looming hunger situation looking at the increasing pricing of the staple food, maize, on the market and the unavailability of the grain in some areas in the country,” CCJP officials say.
Officials of the entity of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) add, “The staple food is still not available and accessible in some ADMARC (Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation) markets across the country.”
As a result, they say, “private traders particularly have taken advantage of the situation to exploit the unsuspecting poor Malawians.”