{"id":226142,"date":"2026-03-06T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-zambia-maize-deal-in-turmoil-only-15000mt-hauled-as-unpaid-local-transporters-cry-foul-over-dollar-payments-to-foreigners\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:18:09","slug":"malawi-zambia-maize-deal-in-turmoil-only-15000mt-hauled-as-unpaid-local-transporters-cry-foul-over-dollar-payments-to-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-zambia-maize-deal-in-turmoil-only-15000mt-hauled-as-unpaid-local-transporters-cry-foul-over-dollar-payments-to-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Zambia Maize Deal in Turmoil &#8211; Only 15,000mt Hauled As Unpaid Local Transporters Cry Foul Over Dollar Payments to Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Malawi&#8217;s Zambia maize deal is unravelling &#8212; and the numbers tell a disturbing story. Out of the 100,000 metric tonnes (MT) assigned to local hauliers under the cross-border arrangement, only 15,000MT has been delivered to the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Not because Malawian transporters have failed. But because they say they have not been paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Zambia maize supply agreement, initiated to cushion the country from drought-induced hunger, was structured so that Malawian transporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050810.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>Malawi&#8217;s Zambia maize deal is unravelling &#8212; and the numbers tell a disturbing story. Out of the 100,000 metric tonnes (MT) assigned to local hauliers under the cross-border arrangement, only 15,000MT has been delivered to the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA). Not because Malawian transporters have failed. But because they say they have not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226143,"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":[53832,258,256,11188,7012,10746,7770,11189,29350,7823,4536,5028,257,6841,254,22857,8513,10393,4709,881],"class_list":["post-226142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-15000mt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cry","tag-deal","tag-dollar","tag-foreigners","tag-foul","tag-hauled","tag-local","tag-maize","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transporters","tag-turmoil","tag-unpaid","tag-zambia","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\/226142","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=226142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}