With 15,000 living rough and stealing to get by, rising poverty and hunger in the country is driving more boys and girls from their homes
Emily Maere had gone into the city of Blantyre to buy stock for her little grocery shop. As usual, she decided not to travel with cash but to use an ATM when she got there., was mugged. To her shock, her attackers were children. “No sooner had I finished the withdrawal than the group of street children attacked me, snatching my purse,” she says.at 2am on the streets of the capital, Lilongwe.
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