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Following the reaffirmation that the consent age for marriage is 18 years, the Constitutional Court has outlawed child marriages. The petitioners in this case were Mr Michael Aboneka and Mr Martins Kirya. They argued that some laws allowed child marriages of their daughters who are 16 years. This makes these laws contradict the constitution that demands that one has to ...

Teenage pregnancy and child marriages are very rampant in Uganda at the moment. However, State Minister for youth affairs Sarah Mateke has encouraged Ugandans to increase efforts to end this bad habit in the country. She did this while speaking during the dissemination of the second national strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancy. This went down at the ...