INTRODUCTION SUDAN NAMIBIA MAURITANIA MADAGASCAR MALI MALAWI LIBERIA GUINEA-BISSAU KENYA IVORY COAST ETHIOPIA GUINEA GUINEA DJIBOUTI ERITREA CHAD DEMOCRATIC REP. OF CONGO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CAMEROON BURUNDI BURUNDI BURKINA FASO BENIN ANGOLA SENEGAL NIGER RWANDA RWANDA SOMALIA REPUBLIC OF CONGO TOGO SIERRA LEONE LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE SWAZILAND ZIMBABWE ZAMBIA TANZANIA UGANDA

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MALAWI

Estimated population: 12.88m

Projected number needing food aid: 4.9m

Key underlying reasons:

  • Drought in parts
  • High food prices
  • Aids: about 20% infected with HIV
  • Sale of grain reserves
  • High population density, shortage of land
Eyewitness
Margaret Gayesi, villager: We get no help from our neighbours. Since the illness, people that we thought were good friends simply ignore us."

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