Marriage is illegal before the age of 18 in Mauritania, yet more than a third of women are in wedlock by the time they reach that milestone, often with devastating consequences for their health and wellbeing. Here, a young girl married off by her parents as a 13-year-old describes her ordeal, which reached its nadir when sleeping in the streets became the only viable alternative to sharing a bed with a man she hated
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