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Malawi Extends State Of Disaster Amid Drought
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))
RABAT, Nov 14 (KUNA) -- Malawi's President Arthur Peter Mutharika on Friday declared extension of the "state of disaster" throughout the country's 48 districts due to acute food shortage resulting from protracted drought.
The president, who in October declared the "state of disaster" in 11 districts, expanded it to all of the nation's regions as a result of the aggravating nutrition resources shortage, according to a report released by Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC).
According to Malawi's media reports, picked up in Rabat, food scarcity reached alarming levels and that the president used his jurisdictions to extend the special state anticipating further deterioration of the food supplies.
Some four million people in Malawi are suffering from acute food insecurity and 8,000 are facing critical levels, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). (end)
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The president, who in October declared the "state of disaster" in 11 districts, expanded it to all of the nation's regions as a result of the aggravating nutrition resources shortage, according to a report released by Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC).
According to Malawi's media reports, picked up in Rabat, food scarcity reached alarming levels and that the president used his jurisdictions to extend the special state anticipating further deterioration of the food supplies.
Some four million people in Malawi are suffering from acute food insecurity and 8,000 are facing critical levels, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). (end)
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