Early marriages

• Priest repays dowry to rescue girl from marriage to old man

  
  2 months ago
  Teenager's marriage to old man in 2015 was planned by her uncles without her knowledge

• 17 girls escape early marriage and FGM

  
  3 months ago
  Seventeen girls, who escaped forced early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), have sought refuge at a public school.

• School shelters girls fleeing the cut and early marriage

  
  3 months ago
  Parents accused of forcing their daughters to undergo FGM.

• Chief fired for attending wedding of Class 2 pupil

  
  5 months ago
  The police have rescued a nine-year-old girl from a forced marriage in Kajiado West sub-county.

• Girls get tips on defending right to education

  
  7 months ago
  The girls were trained as advocates against early marriages.

• Centre where FGM victims find hope

  
  9 months ago
  “An old man from a neighbouring village had come to book me for marriage. The man was old and wanted to marry me as his fourth wife,” said the minor

• More boarding schools key to curbing early marriages

  
  9 months ago
  Teenage pregnancies, early marriages and poverty are the main factors pushing children out of school

• Four-year-old saved from marrying man, 70

  
  10 months ago
  Child’s father reportedly wanted to marry her off to recover the bride price he had paid for her mother

• Early marriages costing sub-Sahara trillions

  
  1 year ago
  Some 41,000 under-age girls marry every day in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a World Bank report released yesterday.

• Challenges the African child faces in our time

  1 year ago
  This day honours the children who participated in the Soweto Uprising on June 16, 1976, and raises awareness of the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African children.

• Tips on how to survive your first year in marriage

  
  1 year ago
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• Educating girls is a smart thing to do

  
  1 year ago
  In developing countries, there are three main issues that prevent the girl child from fulfilling her right to education. They include gender inequality, culture, religion, and economic condition/status.

• MP Janet Nangabo decries rising cases of early marriages

  
  1 year ago
  Mrs Nangabo said many cases have been reported on villages along the Kenya-Uganda border, where schoolgirls are married off to men from the neighbouring country.

• Schoolgirl, 14, flees from home to avoid father's plans to marry her off

  
  2 years ago
  A 14-year-old girl has been rescued from early marriage.

• Police after boys and men who impregnated seven students

  
  2 years ago
  Seven primary and secondary school pupils have been impregnated by their schoolmates and villagers, education officials have said.

• Bad weather pushing children in to marriages

  
  2 years ago
  Tens of thousands of children across southern Africa are being pushed out of school and into early marriage or child labour because of drought and hunger caused by the El Nino weather pattern, charities said mid last week.

• Tanzania court rules against child marriage

  
  2 years ago
  Tanzania’s High Court ruled last week that two sections of the 1971 Marriage Act that allow girls to marry at 15 with parental consent and 14 with the permission of a court, were unconstitutional.

• Are parents responsible for early marriages in Kisumu?

  
  2 years ago
  It is really painful when you see a young girl getting married before getting an education. It is so sad and annoying to see a young girl denied the...

• Narok duo found guilty in early marriage case

  
  2 years ago
  The child's father, Tipila ole Topusat, and Philip ole Kipila were brought before Narok Senior Resident Magistrate Allan Sitati where Mr Topusat was fined Sh100,000. Kipila was fined Sh50,000 plus three months' imprisonment.

• Five girls walk for days to avoid their planned early marriages

  
  2 years ago
  Five girls aged between 10 and 14 were yesterday rescued at Chepkono trading centre in West Pokot County after escaping from early forced marriages.