Teen in custody over abortion

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Malawi

Malawi Police in Ntchisi district have arrested a form three student at Mpherere Community Day Secondary School for terminating a pregnancy.

policePolice have identified the suspect as Rose Kawaza, 19, and says she was in a love affair with a married  man, Manfred Kondwani Jowo, of Kamsonga Trading Centre since September 2015.  

According to police, the suspect realized that she was pregnant when she commenced the second term of school on January 4, 2016 and agreed with Jowo to abort it.

Police says with the aid of Jowo and a health official at Kamsonga Health Centre, Kawaza terminated the pregnancy and she was then admitted at Ntchisi District Hospital on January, 5 2016.

Kawaza hails from Magwero Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chilooko in Ntchisi.