Child marriage: 'I was sold into marriage for £7 at the age of 12'

2023-11-29 08:56

Tamara was married at 12 and a mother at 13 - one of millions worldwide who marry before 18.

It is estimated that one in five girls across the world is married by the age of 18. Even countries that have laws against child marriage sometimes fail to enforce them. But in Malawi some are seeing the first signs of change.

The third time we visited Tamara we were told she had left for the nearby...