According to a report by the United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF in 2016 regarding the State of the Worlds Children, nearly one in every two girls in Uganda is married off before the age of 18.
The Kooki cultural leader Kamuswaga Apollo Sansa Kabumbuli has asked cultural leaders in the country to work towards an end to female genital mutilation- FGM and early child marriages.
Kamuswaga who was returning from a cultural and heritage workshop in Blantyre, Malawi says that the continent is experiencing an increase in the number of child marriages.
Kamuswaga says that the governments and cultural leaders in the country need to work together and get rid of the practices.
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Cultural leaders from over twenty-two countries in the sub-Saharan Africa converged for the five-day conference to discuss possible solutions to end child marriages and FGM.
Uganda was represented by royals from Tooro Kingdom and Kooki.
According to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2016 regarding the State of the World's Children, nearly one in every two girls in Uganda is married off before the age of 18.
On June 16, 2015, government launched the African Union Campaign to end child marriage and its first-ever National Strategy on Ending Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy (2014/2015 2019/2020), which was developed in partnership with civil society organizations.
A recent report by the World Health Organization-WHO indicates that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in 30 countries.
