Food emergency, worst in 30 years(Malawi) --"The tragedy has been caused by bad policies. The government actually sold food reserve stocks, miscalculating the country's needs. There is a also a suspicion that some food reserves were sold to friends of the government who are now selling at five times the real price"…….."In order to intervene the international community was waiting for the government to declare a state of emergency. BUT FOR POLITICAL REASONS the President delayed doing so. In fact - as Fr Gamba explains - in the previous 30 years of dictatorship there was never a tragedy of these proportions."