The World Food Program reports that food shortages are coming to an end in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, but such problems continue to worsen in Zimbabwe.
James Morris, head of the World Food Program, told The New York Times,
A serious humanitarian disaster has been averted. Food has been put in place over the last several […]
Malawi is one of a number of African countries facing a food crisis. Like other African nations, Malawi has taken to blaming all of its problem on international actors such as the International Monetary Fund. But its behavior suggests that most, if not all of its problems, are internal.
Malawi, for example, has been promising for […]
The African nation of Malawi is headed toward a famine disaster created almost entirely by corruption and mismanagement at the highest level of its government. Malawi, sadly, presents a paradigmatic case of how governments in the developing world all too frequently condemn their citizens to hunger and starvation.
The government of Malawi had warnings and indications […]
A study published this month in The Lancet should settle once and for all whether or not vaccination of disease is a worthwhile goal to achieve in the developing world. There has been some skepticism over whether or not poor nations possessed the infrastructure to carry out large scale vaccination programs.
The study looked at World […]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned in February that parts of southern Africa are at serious risk of famine over the next few months that could threaten as many as four million people.
The famine threat is greatest in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, of course, has seen its crop production cut in half […]
Africa is the only region, to my knowledge, in which the life expectancy has been declining over the past two decades, and it looks like the life expectancy there will continue to decline for the forseeable future.
According to a recent conference on African population issues held in Ethiopia, average life expectancy in Africa has declined […]