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Motorists are queueing for hours at filling stations as a fuel crisis continues in Malawi.

Malawi has had fuel shortages since April as global fuel price rises and a shortage of foreign exchange currency leave the government struggling to pay for petrol imports.

Fr. Edmond Nyoka is a Catholic Priest in Embangweni, in Mzimba district in the Northern Region of Malawi. He told Newsday: 鈥淭here are long queues in the gas stations, some people are spending a whole day on the queue hoping to get fuel鈥�sometimes they go home empty-handed.鈥� He added that officials have told people that they will receive 鈥渁bout twelve million litres of petrol and thirteen million litres of diesel in the coming days but鈥�that sounds like a short-term plan.鈥�

(Picture: People continue to queue for fuel in Malawi. Credit: Amos Gumulira / AFP via Getty Images.)