Governments urged to give aid towards food crisis in southern Africa

INTERNATIONAL governments need to give emergency aid to southern Africa, which is facing the biggest famine in the world, it was claimed yesterday.

Global food agency, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said there could be up to three million people starving in Malawi by January.

WFP executive director James Morris said in Dublin that bad weather and the HIV/AIDs crisis had badly hit crop harvests in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland.