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Shattered war economy encourages child marriage in Yemen

Nasser Al-Sakkaf

TAIZ, 15 February 2017

It’s impossible to get hard numbers, but child marriage appears to be on the rise in Yemen: a consequence of the extreme poverty caused by nearly two years of devastating war in what was already one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.

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