people go for information. they do want to express. on facebook and twitter. to touch. followers. to say africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the children forced into marriage will bring you the story of a child bride in nigeria who was locked up by her family she refused to return to a husband. and zimbabwe's backstreet doctors and nurses all striking so women are turning to unqualified midwives to deliver their babies.

hello i'm kristie. have you along if you're a girl born in nigeria there's a good chance you'll be married before you're 18 years old that's because nigeria as one of the highest number of child marriages in the world that's according to the u.n. we're talking about this as the world mocks the 30th anniversary off the convention off the rights of the child as we report the rise of many girls in nigeria are being violated. a muslim neighborhood in kaduna city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years without much light or food and left on her own her name is her santa she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her

husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4. a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before your 18th birthday. this neighbor noticed santa he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters off much younger. sons and what age 66. what we had to school by detention gold market as much or 2 this is. a fierce advocate for women's and children's rights she helped to be freed robbie is muslim herself she says the koran does not justify this practice there is more pacific or any findings or any security that proved those things the administration would be forced marriages are most of this is not

done there is an islamic perspective the ad done best prospect if she says education is key to change outdated practices and support women's rights islam is very why does a leader that is not all that. is something that has to do with advancement so are the laws can be amended and can be seeing. that the condition of the. child marriage exists elsewhere in nigeria to here in lagos poverty drives some parents to marry daughters of under 18. is privileged in many ways but that doesn't stop the 17 year old from raising her voice against child marriage his son a story makes her angry a lot of nigerians don't view women as human beings view them as. i did and it is to them susan wants to amend the constitution so that it bars

anyone under the age of 18 from. getting married she and 2 friends have started an online petition to bring the issue to the senate floor the next step would be to get to the root of the problem and try to educate the man the women and everyone perpetrating this are there are millions of girls who are married off every year and if those millions of girls were millions of people out it's nigeria's workforce the g.d.p. and he would be in a much better standing than it is now. a son has been transferred to the psychiatric hospital the doctors say it will take months to stabilize her it's unclear how long the government will finance her treatment and with her family will be held accountable for the damage it has done. i spoke to 13 year old campaign a menu gun deficit from ghana she has been researching child marriage in her community i began by asking her what she found out. i got to know down to

the end and at 18 years old i mean to marry because you're right or yeah right now financially. our financial problems which did come take care of you got you know and you get given to a girl to marry at 11. ok so that is why child marriages happen in oh do you want to say some more yes any admission that. is the culture of time people will get it's when did you know. yeah i think yes she were beginning to marry and yeah i've been doing so now so i got into my research as well it out that the air. yeah. in you too. that's why you've been out of your children are ill each ok ok man you made us so

so that is what your research is telling you and so what do you think needs to be done such child marriage can be brought to an end in communities like yours. thank you for that christine. oh please that governments don't garner who to educate and bearing and to help their ain't trying nationally so that is thought given i. got tears through my reach are very thick and i. ok manual i sense that this is something that you are very passionate about tell me why this is something that you are doing why are you fighting for child marriage to end thank you i'm fighting for 'd child marriage to ended because you do so how

did this children who are given out to marriage act and very end that age that are. in a trade messy square and you are going to delude babbit guy did call the ghettos and want to lead them to the cunt come mostly died to give a big fat while you do better in these when i researched inane found out their guy many of them guy aus not have. thats why i i want to i want to. get there right saying people who are giving out yet to grant my rage are to stop it because god knows. these girls can become prominent people in the near future.

that was emmanuel at the end if it's from. now the health system in zimbabwe is on the verge of collapse as the country battles its worst economic crisis in decades says have been on strike for months now nurses and midwives in the capital harare have also stopped work the result is that many pregnant women are being forced to give birth in dangerous conditions. far from the maternity ward the men are queuing up to give birth in the living room of a cramped apartment here in harare the woman looking after them is 72 year old grandmother esther she has no formal midwife training but since the local clinic closed 2 weeks ago she says she has been delivering up to 20 babies a day. to ensure their i don't have anything to use or a proper place but the holy spirit helps me these here pregnant women want some of

already given birth and have gone to their homes because i don't have the space to accommodate them or anything to give them. here is pressed syrian says kofi newborn baby the birth did not go as she planned when contractions became painful she rushed to the nearby clinic just to find closed doors that was what it was. i don't know it's true it was. going to answer the question. was you. know in a funny farm then whatever this whole days. i was funny i was in a good place to maybe. over the weekend senior health officials came to visit is to slat. it is very. or i didn't realize that this is yours and i was like it was in the different data that we have the numbers that we just look at the

numbers that we have the machine we were dealing with britney remains were already in labor. going home with her baby press t.v. iran's is grateful she says they could both have died had not been for this help for now the strike goes on and the doors of the hospital remain closed. my next guest is a nurse and midwife. from the zimbabwe urban and rural council nurses workers union she's in the capital harare welcome to news africa we've just seen that women in zimbabwe are turning to backstreet midwives to deliver their babies what all the risks involved. there are many risks involved in big 3 to me 2 or 3 because. remain in labor and delivery they need should. which needs professional people to do that they have complications

with me ok like most parts of the modern age. there are quite a number of complications because this people would not have adequate. knowledge to conduct that anybody's minutes question to you is you all of course one of those professions as you say who are striking and i wondered what would it take for people like you to go back to work. for you and of course the media has been saying this is. striking but the fact is that to be are not striking this is a strike and this is that incapacity to to go to work due to fire because we shouldn't lose psychological if i. so they are you keep us updated to continue going to wake. can you elaborate on that point

does this come down to a wage dispute that you're having with the government. we wait for the aristide to consul not the government and our employers they had us it's a consulate. so we have been appealing to them so that they actually see how incapacitated we are we send them a later in may 21000 i love bridging our in cup a station we send later as well in july then in november and up to now nothing is being done by the city 5 s. so we are just appearing to them to yes we know that 12 essential services today community and our patients that really need as and it's quite it's quite the dining but our women are suffering because we cannot afford to go to work ok that's.

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