A new report exposes legal loopholes protecting rapists in Africa
A report by the international NGO Equality Now says the definition of rape in 25 African countries has allowed many perpetrators to go unpunished. Such narrow definitions, it says, often allow charges against accused rapists to be reduced to lesser crimes with lower penalties. Lameck Masina reports from Blantyre
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