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Activist Rafiq Hajat dies - Malawi 24 - Malawi news

Malawian Rights activist Rafiq Hajat, 65, has died after suffering heart attack. Hajat has died this morning and funeral arrangements are yet to be announced by his family. Hajat was born in Blantyre in 1955 and he got a degree in political science at Saint Xavier College in India in 1975. He is the founding […]

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