Malawi’s Fuel Shortage Becomes a National Emergency as Drivers Queue for Days

Malawi’s unending fuel crisis: decades of rampant corruption

By Brighton Nkhata Malawi is once again running on a fuel life support. Motorists are spending days in fuel queues, businesses are shutting down, and public hospitals are struggling to keep generators running — a familiar nightmare that has haunted the nation for over a decade, fueled by what analysts and opposition leaders call systemic […]

Malawi’s Fuel Shortage Becomes a National Emergency as Drivers Queue for Days

Sido Sombeja has spent eight days and nights in his minibus at a petrol station in Zomba, waiting for a tanker. He is one face of a shortage that began in late 2022 and has, over the past four weeks, hardened into a national emergency, according to the Guardian’s reporting.