Zimbabwe: Child Marriages On the Rise in Kariba

23 November 2020

COMMUNITIES in the fishing camps of Fothergill, Nyaodza and Gache Gache in Kariba have expressed concern at the high number of school drop-outs and early child marriages involving girls, some as young as 13 years.

At least 59 girls fell pregnant during the lockdown period with some of them failing to return when school re-opened.

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