{"id":201562,"date":"2025-07-04T01:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-mozambique-beats-hunger-malawi-sinks-8-million-starving-despite-billions-in-fisp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:56:02","slug":"africa-mozambique-beats-hunger-malawi-sinks-8-million-starving-despite-billions-in-fisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-mozambique-beats-hunger-malawi-sinks-8-million-starving-despite-billions-in-fisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Mozambique Beats Hunger, Malawi Sinks &#8211; 8 Million Starving Despite Billions in FISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">As neighbouring Mozambique celebrates its removal from the United Nations&#8217; Hunger Hotspot list following a successful harvest, Malawi remains gripped by a worsening hunger crisis &#8212; with 8 million citizens on the brink of starvation and no clear answers from those in power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">It is a brutal and humiliating contrast. Mozambique &#8212; with similar weather patterns, geography, and challenges &#8212; has managed to turn the corner. Meanwhile, Malawi, after pouring billions into the so-called Affordable Inputs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As neighbouring Mozambique celebrates its removal from the United Nations&#8217; Hunger Hotspot list following a successful harvest, Malawi remains gripped by a worsening hunger crisis &#8212; with 8 million citizens on the brink of starvation and no clear answers from those in power. It is a brutal and humiliating contrast. Mozambique &#8212; with similar weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8798,12854,35610,6223,5028,5118,4704,257,7203,254,21806,881],"class_list":["post-201562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beats","tag-billions","tag-fisp","tag-hunger","tag-malawi","tag-million","tag-mozambique","tag-news","tag-sinks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starving","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}