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‘They call this the Massive Hunger. It is reaching everybody’

Carl O’Brien in Malawi on the food crisis that is hitting the African country

‘They call this the Massive Hunger. It is reaching everybody’

Mon, 09 Sep, 2002 - 01:00

EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD Ayines Mkunule has never been forced to eat the poisonous roots of the banana tree to try to survive.

Until now.

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Place: Malawi Place: African Place: southern Africa Place: Blantyre Place: Chiradzulu Place: southern Malawi Place: Nenagh Place: Co Tipperary Place: Ethiopia Place: Tempuka Village Person: Carl O’Brien Person: Ayines Mkunule Person: Ayines Person: Mario Mame Person: Anne Marie O'Donoghue Person: Ayines Mkunle Organisation: GOAL Organisation: USAID Organisation: Malawian government

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