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?Our children are having risky, unprotected sex, and we are to blame

The week’s surprise was that Ambassador Amina Mohamed was shocked by the number of deliveries by pregnant teenagers sitting KCPE examination.

I listened with horror as Tanzania’s President John Magufuli scoffed at the idea of allowing such children to continue with school. In his mind, pregnancy was a girl’s ultimate sin, from which there was only damnation. Interestingly, such moral police never propose similar penalties for the impregnators.

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