Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides
- INVESTIGATIONS
- November 28, 2017
Gethin Chamberlain
Investigative journalist | Photographer | Foreign correspondent
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South Sudan’s battle for cattle is forcing schoolgirls to become teenage brides0
- WORLD
- June 8, 2017
Conflict and desperate hunger are driving families to marry off their daughters to secure precious cows, despite the girls having to forfeit their education Gethin Chamberlain for The Guardian, 8 June 2017 Down a red dirt road on the outskirts of Rumbek, a sprawling town at the heart of the world’s youngest country, a small
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South Sudan0
- IMAGES
- June 9, 2017
South Sudan became the world’s newest country in 2011 but within two years fighting had broken out between Dinka loyal to President Salva Kiir and members of the Nuer tribe, supporting former vice-president Riek Machar. A combination of violence and drought devastated last year’s harvests, creating food shortages that have left 100,000 people facing famine
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Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- November 28, 2017
As global warming exacerbates drought and floods, farmers’ incomes plunge and girls as young as 13 are given away to stave off poverty Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 26 November 2017 It was the flood that ensured that Ntonya’s first year as a teenager would also be the first year of her married life. Up
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