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Senegal Hosts Summit On Ending Child Marriage
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
Ministers, religious and traditional leaders are joining UN agencies at a three-day meeting in Senegal to try to find practical measures to combat child marriage.
Plus the diplomatic community in Kenya are warning of what they are calling a "deteriorating political environment" ahead of this week's re-run of the annulled presidential election.
(Image: Young girl at school reading from a text book. Credit: BBC)
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