The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 56% of girls in the province of Nampula, northern Mozambique, marry before reaching adolescence and 18% before the age of 15, reiterating its support against forced marriages in the region.
According to a note from UNICEF, Mozambique has “one of the highest rates of early marriage in the world,” where, globally, 48% of girls marry before the age of 18. “But in the province of Nampula, this figure rises to 56% and, surprisingly, 18% marry before the age of 15,” it says.
(Source: LUSA)
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