Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 33 teenage girls in Acholi are being made pregnant everyday since the lockdown when they stopped going to school. In all so far, a whopping 4,000 girls in the Acholi sub-region have become pregnant in four months of the lockdown an average …
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Harare, Zimbabwe | XINHUA | Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law barring government schools from excluding girls who fall pregnant from attending lessons. Teachers are also no longer allowed to cane pupils, under amendments to the Education Act which became law on Saturday. The new law also says …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has reopened the maternity ward to handle pregnant Ugandans and legal residents returning from abroad. In March, the ward was closed to the public just like other departments such as dental, surgery, outpatients to enable the facility to effectively manage …
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