Robbing the cradle in silence: Botswana’s hidden child marriage crisis

Kalomo District Commissioner urges better response over Child Marriages, teen pregnancy issues

Zambia: Kalomo District Commissioner Joshua Sikaduli has warned village headmen and the people living in the communities under their command to take a more proactive role in dissuading child marriages and early pregnancies. The communities in the remote areas of the district have to stop resolving issues on girl child marriages and early pregnancies at household level. The district commissioner said that it is very important for the girls to be …

Robbing the cradle in silence: Botswana’s hidden child marriage crisis

Sunday Standard Robbing the cradle in silence: Botswana’s hidden child marriage crisis For thousands of Batswana girls, marriage and motherhood start before adulthood.While their peers are still playing house with plastic dolls, a growing number of Botswana adolescent girls are secretly being married off, nursing babbies and changing diapers even before reaching their teens – new statistics have revealed..ihc-locker-wrap{}There's more to this st…