Malawi: Increasing number of children working

The effects of the 2002 food crisis in Malawi continue to take a heavy toll of the country's children, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a new report. The 50-page study, launched last week, noted an increase in the number of children forced to seek informal employment to cope with the aftershock of food shortages two years ago, when consecutive poor harvests placed over three million people in need of emergency food aid.