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Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Thom Ligowe takes over Malawi’s Hyena case

Maravi Post correspondent
Eric Aniva
In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it’s traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a “hyena” once they reach puberty. The act is not seen by village elders as rape, but as a form of ritual “cleansing”. However, as Ed Butler reports, it has the potential to be the opposite of cleansing – a way of spreading disease.

NSANJE-(MaraviPost)—Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Thom Ligowe has taken over Eric Aniva “Hyena’s” case.  This development comes barely two days after Nsanje First Grade Magistrate Anderson Masanjala recused himself handling the case arguing his hands were tied in the face of different comments on the matter from media. Continue reading Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Thom Ligowe takes over Malawi’s Hyena case →