The number of child brides in Africa will more than double to 310 million by 2050 unless urgent action is taken, the UN's children's fund Unicef has warned in a new report. More than one in three ...

The head of the UNs AIDS agency on Monday urged African countries to protect young women and children who are bearing the brunt of the continents AIDS epidemic. A sharp rise of people living with the ...

The total number of child brides in Africa will rise from 125 million to 310 million by 2050 if current trends persist, meaning almost half of the world's child brides will be African, a UNICEF report ...

As water levels in Africa’s Lake Chad fall, child brides, poverty and terrorism rise. In part two of our NextGen International project, two Nigerian activists write how the climate crisis is fuelling ...

‘I just want to be a kid’: Mozambique’s child brides forced to marry at 13 The country has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. In many rural areas it’s easier to get married than ...

Veronica was just three years old when her parents, who live in a desolate village in South Sudan, “booked” her marriage to secure a dowry of a few cattle to feed their starving family. There was ...

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a 26-year-old man after a teenage girl died during childbirth, in a case that has sparked outrage among citizens and rights activists. Anna Machaya, 15, is reported to ...

Girls should be at school, says AU Chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma The number of child brides in Africa will more than double to 310 million by 2050 unless urgent action is taken, the UN's children's ...