Tanzania: Teen-Mothers Decade-Old Policy Now Obsolete, Says Govt

Dodoma — Kawe Member of Parliament Halima Mdee revived the "teen mothers' controversy" in the National Assembly on Thursday, February 1, when she asked the government to give the way forward on a 10-year policy on teen mothers that so far remains unimplemented.

Ms Mdee said the government had embarked on the re-entry policy over a decade ago to help school girls who happened to give birth while still schooling to resume their studies.

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