Written by Alice Njoki. A new United Nations report has brought worrying news about the future of child marriage, saying that it could last until 2092. Especially in rural areas where deep cultural beliefs around marriage and economic hardship have led to young girls getting married off before they reach adulthood. The current statistics show […]
About 5 million children under five years and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years died in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). In addition, 1.9 million babies were stillborn during the same period according to another separate report. To […]