Red Cross district coordinator Wanangwa Nkhata has bemoaned poor road networks in Neno, which have been affecting the district’s Red Cross efforts to reduce malnutrition and stunting in the district.

The above was revealed at the exchange visit of Red Cross care groups from Mulanje, Chikwawa and Mangochi districts aimed at sharing experience and commitment to new approaches in the fight against malnutrition and stunting.

According to Nkhata, Neno was supposed to have 40 agriculture extension workers but, it has 14 on the ground. “Due to poor roads, a number of experienced government officers who were posted to work in the district, refuse to stay.” he said.

In November, a Malawi delegation in Washington DC, at the 2019 joint annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met Opec Fund for International Development (Ofid) officials to discuss and negotiate a number of issues on the operations of the Ofid in Malawi, as the delegates also called for the financing the Mangochi-Makanjira and Mswang’oma-Nambazo- Nasiyaya road projects. On the other hand, the Roads Funds Administration revealed that it will start constructing a road user toll fee collection centre to ensure that funds are available for road maintenance.