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15 girls pregnant, married off during Covid-19 period

A student from Koru Girls performs a solo verse about teenage pregnancy at Thur Dibuoro Boys in Nyakach during the county music drama festival in March. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Fifteen school-going girls as young as 13 years have been impregnated and some married off in Kisauni, Mombasa County, since the Covid-19 pandemic started in March. 

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