malawi: Starving Malawi loses $40m in corrupt maize sales

Malawi has lost $40-million in the corrupt sale of maize, a staple food in a country where more than three million face starvation, a top government official says. The figure, supplied by an official from the country's national audit office who asked not to be named, follows last month's revelation that 160 000 tons of the country's strategic grain reserves had been mismanaged.