Pregnant girls face higher risk of losing babies to complications

Adolescent mothers aged 10 to 19 years have a higher risk of eclampsia, puerperal endometritis, and systemic infections than women aged 20 to 24 years, according to the World Health Organization. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Fatuma*, a 17-year-old from Merti, Isiolo, has seen it all.

She was married off as a third wife at the age of 13 to a wealthy businessman in the area in exchange for 12 cows and 25 goats.