By Phuong Tran Katote, Senegal 13 March 2007 In parts of rural Africa, some parents force their daughters to marry as young as eight-years-old. This is so there is no chance the girls can get pregnant before marriage, and ruin the families' honor. O...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 June 2006 Sauri, in western Kenya, is one of a dozen so-called Millennium Villages set up across the continent by American and African development experts and funded by governments and private donors. Local committees wi...