Tweet-chat: Speeding up regional and national action to #EndChildMarriageNOW in Africa

On Day of the African Child, Girls Not Brides held a tweet-chat to celebrate progress made to end child marriage in Africa and call for renewed action across the continent. Here are the highlights.

https://storify.com/GirlsNotBrides/speeding-up-regional-and-national-action-to-endchi

In the time it has taken to read this article 3 girls under the age of 18 have been married

Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18

That is 23 girls every minute

Nearly 1 every 2 seconds

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