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Rumphi, Malawi: For three consecutive days in October 2018, Catherine (real name withheld) went to a fishing camp in Luwuchi community on the shores of Lake Malawi to buy fish known locally as usipa.
On each occasion, the widowed mother of three returned empty-handed because the fishermen she approached all wanted sex in exchange, not money.
“I always refused but then life was becoming very hard for me and my children [and] I was in desperate need of making sales since the [fish-selling] business was my only source of income,” Catherine, now 44, told Al Jazeera. “The next day, I…
