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Women’s rights activists say the issue of child marriages cannot be divorced from the economic situation in the country which is forcing most young girls into early marriages and only self-help projects can help curtail this problem.…

“I was married off to my current husband at the age of 16. I did not know him as I was given as compensation to appease the avenging spirit of a man who was said to have been murdered by my great grandfather,” said Tariro Mbeta (not her…

It takes real men to be responsible as the saying goes. With early child marriage becoming a daily dosage for local tabloids, there is need to involve men in the fight against this heinous practice. Men have been urged to respect and…

CENTENARY- CHILD marriages have been globally condemned but resistance has been noted in some pockets. At Bedwood farm, about six kilometers from the small farming town of Centenary, about 60 kilometres outside Harare, marriages,…