18/07/2018
Malian refugee refuses forced marriage in favour of school
Sitting in her family tent in Mauritania?s Mbera refugee camp, 12-year-old Fatimata concentrates intently as she draws a flower on her school notebook. Behind her are piled the mattresses and blankets that were to be her dowry, had she not resisted her family?s attempt to forcibly marry her off to a cattle-herding cousin in her ......
