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The Malawian midwife who caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth

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In 2008, Charity Salima left her job as a nurse-midwife after working for nearly 20 years to set up a clinic in the populous township of Area 23 in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe. Achikondi Women's Centre would help expectant mothers and provide basic medical care to the surrounding community she thought.

When Seodi threatened a naked march

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  A group of women calling themselves Forum for Concerned Women has vowed to take to the streets of Blantyre on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 to demonstrate against what they describe as the harrassment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah in the calls for her resignation. Tearing up, the women led by Minister of Gender Mary Navitcha, human rights activist now a chief director in the DPP administration Seodi White addressed a press briefing in Blantyre on Monday having earlier written a blind statement.