Child marriage in Sudan

Child Marriage in Sudan. In 2017 in Sudan, 34% of girls are married off before the 18 years old. 12% are married before they turn 15.[1] Sudan is the 29th highest nation in the world for child marriage.

The current legal marriage of girls in Sudan is at age 10.[2]

gollark: SPUDNET is a very excessively comprehensive solution which has some limited concept of authentication too.
gollark: Well, sure, but websockets allow bidirectional communication.
gollark: Well, websockets technically, but it's over HTTP.
gollark: I have a cool system called SPUDNET for HTTP remote management of stuff.
gollark: I mean, rednet is a useless wrapper over modems.

References
  1. "Child marriage around the world: SUDAN", Girls Not Brides
  2. Katy Migiro, "Sudan worst in Africa with legal marriage at age 10", Thomson Reuters Foundation
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