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Jean Alfazema Nachika Kalilani is a
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an politician who has served in the
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as Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security since 2015. Previously she was Minister of Health from 2014 to 2015. She is also the Secretary General of the
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(DPP) and second term Member of Parliament for Dowa Central Constituency.


Life

Kalilani studied medicine in Marseille in France where she became a doctor of medicine and achieved a master’s degree in tropical medicine. She worked for the
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in
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as a country representative. In 2010 she was elected to chair of
Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus The Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus is a cross party group of women who are members of Malawi's National Assembly. It was formed in 1996 when there were nine women members of parliament who wanted to work together across parties whenever the ...
, in 2010, after a difficult time when Anita Kalinde was impeached. It was suspected that
Anita Kalinde Anita Kalinde was the MP for Thyolo North in Malawi. She made the news when she had a tussle with the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security in parliament. Life In 2010 Jean Kalilani took over the chair of the Malawi Parliamentary Women ...
who was
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's niece had used the position to forward their political ambitions. Kalilani was appointed as a minister in the following year and Christina Chiwoko became an interim chairperson until Cecilia Chazama was elected. After DPP candidate
Peter Mutharika Arthur Peter Mutharika (born 18 July 1940) is a Malawi, Malawian politician and lawyer who was President of Malawi from May 2014 to June 2020. Mutharika has worked in the field of international justice, specialising in international economic la ...
was elected President, he appointed Kalilani as Minister of Health in June 2014. She was moved to the post of Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security in August 2015. Kalilani had been elected to be the DPP's Secretary General. She was replaced in 2014 by order of the DPP's executive committee by Ecrain Julius Kudontoni. In 2016 she was the Minister for gender, disability and social welfare. The government had passed a number of related acts of legislation so Kalilani worked with the ministry of rural affairs to organise a meeting of lady chiefs. Over two days they were encouraged to use their social capital to publicise this legislation and to encourage others to challenge traditions. She was invited by the
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in 2017 to take the lead on gender for an African Union meeting. In the following year she organised celebrations for
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involving the first lady Gertrude Mutharika and concentrating on women in the countryside. The progress of Malawi on gender was encouraged by the UN's representative Clara Anyangwe and Kalilani was invited to New York to discuss gender related issues at the United Nations. Kalilani is the mother of recording artist and aspiring politician
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