Child marriage on the rise in Horn of Africa as drought crisis intensifies
NAIROBI, 29 June 2022 - Girls as young as twelve are being forced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at “alarming rates” in the Horn of Africa, as the most severe drought in forty years pushes families to the edge – warns UNICEF. In the regions of Ethiopia worst affected by the drought, child marriage has on average more than…