Nairobi — Girls as young as twelve are being forced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation at"alarming rates" in the Horn of Africa, as the most severe drought in forty years pushes families to the edge - warns UNICEF.
"We are seeing alarming rates of child marriage and FGM across the Horn of Africa - with some destitute families arranging to marry off girls as young as twelve to men more than five times their age," says Andy Brooks, UNICEF's Regional Child Protection Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa. Across the Horn of Africa region, increasing numbers of girls are in danger of leaving school as the crisis deepens, putting them at higher risk of child marriage and FGM. The number of children at risk of dropping out of school in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia due to the impact of the drought has tripled in the space of three months - from 1.1. million to an estimated 3.3 million children.
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