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Following our online story on an alleged decree requiring Eritrean men to marry at least two wives or face jail, we have so far established that this may not be true.
The story — which ran on the Entertainment column — was written in jest as an entertainment piece with all disclaimers on veracity and we can now say that reading from excerpts of the Eritrean law, monogamy is actually not criminalised and instead encouraged if it is not for the two reasons below.
According to the Eritrean law, polygamy is only recognized under civil law in conformity with tradition or religious usage.
Otherwise a person found guilty of polygamy or bigamy is punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to 12 months, or a fine of between Sh125,000 and Sh312,500.
We will go by this, because from the onset no malice on our part was intended whatsoever against the great Eritrean people.
