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Tanzania's top court scraps girl marriages
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Tanzania upheld a High Court ruling which said child marriages infringed girls' rights.
The first ever Russia-Africa summit begins in Sochi, Russia.
Photo: Schoolgirls in Mwanza, Tanzania, Credit: Antony Asael/Art In All of Us/Getty Images
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