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Five school girls fall pregnant

A Garissa based non-governmental organisation has expressed outrage over the news that five school girls became pregnant in remote Mansabubu, Garissa County.

Womankind chief-executive-officer, Abdullahi Mohamed, said it is not only unthinkable that such pregnancies can occur in a conservative society where sex before marriage is virtually unknown, but also a major drawback to education of girls, whose enrolment rates are less than 40 per cent.

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