{"id":229130,"date":"2016-07-08T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229130"},"modified":"2016-07-08T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:00:50","slug":"gambias-president-yahya-jammeh-bans-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229130","title":{"rendered":"Gambia&#8217;s President Yahya Jammeh bans child marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4a820\" data-offset-key=\"4g9qn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4g9qn-0-0\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Gambia&#8217;s President Yahya Jammeh has told lawmakers to introduce legislation to ban child marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jammeh said anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, he said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face prison.<\/p>\n<p>Some 46% of girls in The Gambia get married before they are 18, according to the UN children&#8217;s agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambia&#8217;s President Yahya Jammeh has told lawmakers to introduce legislation to ban child marriage. Mr Jammeh said anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years. Speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, he said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face prison. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":229133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}