Malawi: Govt to Ban Sex Cleansing Practices - Minister Kaliati

Malawi government is working on banning harmful cultural practises following revelations of a rular man from Nsanje, Eric Aniva who confessed to defiling young girls and sleeping with widows when he was HIV positive.

Aniva, who has since been arrested after Presidential directive when the news about his confession was on BBC, was practising the custom of deflowering young girls who have reached puberty. It is a ritual observed in some remote southern regions of the country as a form of "cleansing."

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