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Environment
Rabson Kondowe

In Malawi, female fish traders mobilise against transactional sex

Kate Mwafulirwa and some of the members of Titukulane, the all-women cooperative of Luwuchi, Malawi. [Feston Malekezo/Al Jazeera]

Rumphi, Malawi: For three consecutive days in October 2018, Catherine (real name withheld) went to a fishing camp in Luwuchi community on the shores of Lake Malawi to buy fish known locally as usipa.

On each occasion, the widowed mother of three returned empty-handed because the fishermen she approached all wanted sex in exchange, not money.

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