Sex Camps designed to train girls for child marriage in Zambia and Mozambique

Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
These sexual initiations begin once menstruation starts and sometimes involve sticks being inserted inside the girls, Persilia Muianga of international aid agency World Vision said.
She added that some mothers force young daughters to sleep with a man in the...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Thomson Reuters Foundation

30 Oct

Tanzania: Child Marriage Harms Girls

Tanzania: Child Marriage Harms Girls
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Child marriage in Tanzania limits girls' access to education and exposes them to serious harms. Human Rights Watch ...

 

11 years ago

SOS Children

21 Jan

Protecting girls from child marriage in Tanzania and worldwide

SOS Children
Protecting girls from child marriage in Tanzania and worldwide
SOS Children
1988 saw the first SOS Children's Village open in Tanzania at Zanzibar, followed by a children's village at Arusha and Dar es Salaam. Over 150 are cared for in loving family homes at these locations and more than 700 children from the local communities ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

08 May

Project saves 5000 Mara girls from child marriage

Project saves 5000 Mara girls from child marriage
Daily News
ABOUT 5,000 girls were rescued from child marriage in Mara region in the past three years following implementation of a project, Mobilizing Action to Safeguard the Rights of Girls in Tanzania. The project, which is being carried out by Children's Dignity Forum ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Feb

VALENTINE SPECIAL: Does a more equal marriage mean less sex?

>Not long ago, I was at a dinner party with several couples in their 40s, all married except for my boyfriend and me. The mood was jovial until, over dessert, one guest made an offhand joke about Internet porn.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Jul

In US same-sex marriage cases, children emerge in the limelight

With legal battles over gay marriage simmering across the United States, proponents are showcasing a group they had once sidelined: children.

 

9 years ago

BBC

Wins for Mozambique and Zambia in qualifiers

Mozambique beat Gabon and Zambia win in Sudan in the first leg of their second round World Cup qualifiers for Russia 2018.

 

10 years ago

Free Tanzania

02 Sep

Campaigning for a Child Marriage

Campaigning for a Child Marriage-Free Tanzania
AllAfrica.com
A new drive to end child marriage is underway in Tanzania. In a country where almost two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday, the "Child Marriage-Free Zone" campaign faces an uphill struggle. At the age of 16, Mahija Mwita was forced ...

 

9 years ago

Bongo5

03 Nov

DJ Creme sex tape scandal: Is this the mystery woman who put Kenya star’s marriage in jeopardy?

One of Kenya’s most famous DJ’s – Dj Creme De La Crème – hit the headlines after allegedly appearing in a sex tape with a woman who is not his wife.

A five-minute clip of the star – real name George Njuguna – engaged in a romp with a mystery female was leaked online over the weekend and soon went viral.

Now the lady who joins him in the sex tape has been identified by Kenyan media as socialite Halima Nasir.

According to reports the video was shot way back in 2011 and had been “shopped”...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

04 Dec

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage
Daily News
FIFTEEN primary school children who had been lined up for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and subsequent marriage have been saved from the ordeal as police have been called in to handle the matter. The children, mainly from pastoralt communities here ...

 

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