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Kilifi parents blamed for increased teenage pregnancies

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Kilifi County's Gender, Culture, Talent and Sports County Assembly Committee together with the county's gender officials during a sensitization workshop organised by KELIN in Mombasa County. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

It is believed that parents of underage girls have been extorting money and accepting favours from their daughters' lovers leading to an increase in teenage pregnancies.

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