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Turnbull is new WFP Malawi country representative; Benoit Thiry retires Turnbull is new WFP Malawi country representative; Benoit Thiry retires Paul Turnbull (L) and Foreign affairs minister Eisenhower Mkaka The World Food Programme (WFP) has a new boss in office, the organization discloses in a statement. The statement says Paul Turnbull is the new country representative replacing Benoit Thiry who has retired. Turnbull presented his letters of credence to Malawi’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eisenhower Mkaka and reiterated WFP’s commitment to working with the Government to save and chan...

Galvanised by global hunger trends, one of Malawi’s largest development partner, The United States of America (USA) Government, through the US Agency for International Development (Usaid), has pumped in $9.5 million (about K7.7 billion) to the World Food Programme (WFP) towards efforts the country’s fight against hunger, which still ravaging the Southeast African nation. The […]

WFP Takes Diverse Approach Towards Challenges Hindering Development All these are being done in an effort to assist Malawi government achieve the sustainable development goals - pic by Moses Masiye Food insecurity, poverty, high illiteracy levels and malnutrition are some of the main challenges hindering development of Malawi as a country. The sick, the hungry, the illiterate and those nursing natural disasters due to climate change fail to contribute efficiently towards the country's economic growth starting from family level. It is to this regards that the World food progr...

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the government of Ireland are now dug in frontline war trenches to fight malnutrion in Malawi and say victory is pn their side. A Malawian grandmother rests  close to her malnoureshed grandson in Zomba ©Gianluigi Guercia, AFP WFP and the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS in the Ministry of Health on Wednesday welcomed a timely contribution of K515 million from the government of Ireland to support interventions that prevent malnutrition in Malawi. “Four of every 10 children are affected by chronic malnutrition,” said Benoit Thiry, WFP Cou...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS in the Ministry of Health today welcome a timely contribution...