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Somali student, Iqra Ali Omar is one of few young women who attend university in Somalia.Iqra lives in the central town of Belet Wenyne where she grew up with relatives, after her parents divorced, forcing her mother to travel to various towns trading wares to feed the family.Educating girls in Somalia remains a challenge. Families prefer to marry them off at an early age. Child marriage is widespread and is perpetuated both through culture and religion. Girls as young as 14 are married off …READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2017/05/23/...Africanews is a new pan-African media pioneering multilingual and independent news telling expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa.Subscribe on ourYoutube channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/africanewsAfricanews is available in English and French.Website : www.africanews.comFacebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.c...Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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