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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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