Five million face death as famine grips Malawi

Bill Corcoran's full article in The Observer :

"Famine is once again stalking Africa's poorest nations as new figures released on Friday show that the food crisis in Malawi is much worse than anticipated.

"Aid agencies now say that at least five million people face starvation this winter.

"The new figures are an increase of nearly a million on what agencies had previously expected in Malawi, a country in the grip of a severe drought and hamstrung by HIV/Aids. The food crisis here is replicated in five other southern African countries - more than 12 million people face chronic shortages between now and the spring harvest."