{"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\/2016\/07\/gambias-president-yahya-jammeh-bans-child-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh bans child marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has told lawmakers to introduce legislation to ban child marriage.<\/p>\n
Mr Jammeh said anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years.<\/p>\n
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
Some 46% of girls in The Gambia get married before they are 18, according to the UN children’s agency.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gambia’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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":229133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n