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Zambia: 'Marrying Off Young Girls is a Tradition'

Early and forced marriages are common in Luapula Province, northern Zambia, where the incidence of early pregnancy and under-age marriage is estimated at about 70 percent, says the UN.
James Oatway / OXFAM

Inonga Mubita (14) uses clay and mud to rebuild the walls of her family's flood damaged hut. Effects of the seasonal flooding of the Zambezi River in Zambia's Western Province.

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