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World Service,3 mins

Getting married young in Uganda

Newsday

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Forty percent of girls in sub-saharan Africa get married before the age of eighteen. The causes of child marriage are common across Africa - parents may marry off their daughter due to poverty or out of fear for their safety. But even after years of initiatives the numbers are not falling dramatically. In the north of Uganda that figure is much higher, as the Âé¶¹Éç's Catherine Byaruhanga has been finding out. (Photo: Child bride. Credit: Âé¶¹Éç)

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