Tanzania: Marriages of convenience

Tanzania: Marriages of convenience
Mail & Guardian Online
It is 12.30pm and an older woman emerges from her tiny mud house. A younger woman is making some porridge outside. These two women are husband and wife: they are traditionally married and they have children. This practice is called nyumba ntobhu in ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Feb

The Baden-Powells born on similar date: Coincidence or convenience?

Talk of ‘undying love’ and, in My Book of Things, the Baden-Powells easily come to mind... Look at it this way... Married in 1912, the couple - Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (‘B-P’: 1857-1941), and his wife Lady Olave (nee Olave Harold Soames: 1889-1977), were born on the same date, February 22, but 32 years apart! Was that a marriage of convenience - or mere coincidence? I don’t know!

 

10 years ago

Castanet.Net

17 Nov

Forced child marriages

Castanet.net
Forced child marriages
Castanet.net
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, speaks as Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, right, listens. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette. Grim human rights reports on forced child marriages in Tanzania are making the government take a hard look at ...
Ottawa quietly pushing aid partner Tanzania on kids' rights, forced marriageCTV News
Ottawa quietly pushing aid partner Tanzania on kid's rights, forced marriage570 News

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10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

10 Feb

Underage Marriages Remain Persistent

Underage Marriages Remain Persistent
AllAfrica.com
TRADITIONS are so powerful in many parts of Tanzania, especially among the Wamasai, Wakurya, and Wachagga in the north; the Wahehe and Wamakonde in the south; and the Wahaya in the west. Traditions also die hard in central Tanzania mainly among ...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

14 Jan

Only Education Can End Unwanted Marriages

Only Education Can End Unwanted Marriages
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar — THE practice of child marriage is still common in many areas because it is embedded in culture and Islamic Religion. According to a recent media survey in some areas of the islands, child marriage is also a furtive practice in families. The survey ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

25 May

Child marriages prompt survey

Child marriages prompt survey
Daily News
A NATIONAL child marriage survey has just begun to establish the current trend of child marriage cases and major causes of the problem in the country. The findings will play a significant role in placing more efforts and new measures to curb child marriages ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 May

Ngo hailed for saving marriages

Women here have commended Tanzania Males for Equal Partners (TMEP) project disseminating maternal health education to men, saying that it’s helping to strengthen most marriages and reducing gender violence.

 

10 years ago

Regina Leader

17 Nov

Child marriages draw scrutiny from Ottawa

CBC.ca
Child marriages draw scrutiny from Ottawa
Regina Leader-Post
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete attend the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Summit in Toronto in May. Photograph by: Nathan Denette, The Canadian Press , The Canadian Press. Grim human rights reports ...
Forced child marriagesCastanet.net
Ottawa pushing aid partner Tanzania on rightsVictoria News
Ottawa quietly pushing aid partner Tanzania on kid's rights, forced marriagemysask.com

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10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

03 Nov

Religious Leaders Warn Against Gay Marriages

Religious Leaders Warn Against Gay Marriages
AllAfrica.com
Mwanza — SAME sex marriages that are popular in some of the western countries are slowly knocking on the doors of Tanzania, it has been revealed. Religious leaders have come out publicly to caution against the growing secret and open demands by ...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

27 Aug

Graca Machel Snubs Child Marriages

IPPmedia
Graca Machel Snubs Child Marriages
AllAfrica.com
TANZANIA was on Tuesday asked to take the continental lead in the struggle against child marriage as the country did in its fight against colonialism across Southern Africa. Launching the National Ending Child Marriage Campaign, "Child Marriage- Free ...
Former S. Africa first lady Graca Machel leads campaign against child marriagesIPPmedia

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