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Business Matters: How a drought in the horn of Africa is contributing to a rise in child marriage

How a drought in the horn of Africa is contributing to a rise in child marriage.

26/07/2022 GMT

How a drought in the horn of Africa is contributing to a rise in child marriage

BBC World Service - Business Matters, How a drought in the horn of Africa is contributing to a rise in child marriage

In regions of Ethiopia, child marriage has more than doubled in the space of one year.

UNICEF tells Business Matters that the drought in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya is leading to a significant jump in the number of adolescent girls being forced into early marriage.

Sam Fenwick is joined by Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland and Lulu Chen,  a journalist with Bloomberg Asia Investing and Real Estate in Hong Kong. 

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says he's confident that the export of grain from the country's Black Sea ports will resume this week, easing the global food crisis. One wheat and maize farmer in Ukraine tells us why he’s not optimistic plans will go ahead. 

We take a look at China's property crisis which has seen people take to the streets in protest. China's property developers are in so much trouble with debt, that the government is expected to launch a $44 billion fund to help prop them up.   

Finally, UNICEF tells Business Matters that the drought in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya is leading to a significant jump in the number of adolescent girls being forced into early marriage.

(Picture: Women look on as they stand in a window in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo 2 in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. Picture Credit: Getty Images).

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