The body has been investigating a Malawi police food supply contract, worth around 2.8bn kwacha, that was awarded to a firm owned by businessman Zameer Karim, called Pioneer Investments.

Malawi on Tuesday received about 19 000 metric tonnes (MT) of maize from Ukraine for the 2024/25 El Nino Food Insecurity Response Initiative to be distributed to 5.7 million Malawians facing hunger.

Malawi's government launched a food distribution drive Wednesday for over five million hunger-stricken people impacted by a drought exacerbated by climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon.