'Nightmare' of underage marriage for Moroccan girls

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 07, 2022 12:04 pm

TAMARWOUTE, Maroc: Kaouthar Oudrhiri Nadia was just 16 when she was married off to a violent husband old enough to be her father — an ordeal thousands of Moroccan girls face every year due to a legal loophole.

'I went through hell. But the nightmare is behind me now,' she said.

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