Maize Shortage

Kenya’s Empty Bread Basket

By Miriam Gathigah
Jane Njeri from the semi-arid lower Mukurweini district in Kenya’s Central Province has taken to boiling wild roots to feed her five children.

Malawi’s Maize Shortage Hits Women

By Mabvuto Banda
Each night Esnart Phiri, a widow with five children, sleeps outside the gates of the state-run maize trader or Admarc market, in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, as she waits for days on end to buy maize.


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