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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

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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