Zambia: Early Marriages Haunt Zambia

TEEN marriages have continued to haunt Zambia, which has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world with 42 per cent.

Women aged between 20-24 years are married by the age of 18, a rate that has not evolved since 2002.

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