For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will ...

In October 2019, Tanzania's high court upheld the landmark 2016 ruling that increased the minimum age of marriage for girls and boys to 18. The Tanzanian government attempted to repeal this decision, ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will have little impact in ending child marriage if parents continue ...

A girl wades through a tidal pool as she collects seaweed near the village of Bwejuu on Zanzibar island, Tanzania in this file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly DAR ES SALAAM, July 4 (Thomson Reuters ...

A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will have little impact in ending child marriage if parents continue to marry off their daughters for bride price ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzanian men who marry schoolgirls or get them pregnant now face 30 years in prison as the government takestougher measures to tackle child marriage and ...