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Saio Marah (name changed for privacy), a respected women’s leader and farmer in Falaba, still grapples with the anguish of losing two daughters who were forced into early marriage, a painful reminder from her past. Both died from complications during childbirth.<\/p>\n
Her disapproval of the marriages, created friction in her own marriage leading to a divorce from her first husband. “There are many issues women face but that they are not allowed to complain openly about it. They won’t tell you not to…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Saio Marah (name changed for privacy), a respected women’s leader and farmer in Falaba, still grapples with the anguish of losing two daughters who were forced into early marriage, a painful reminder from her past. Both died from complications during childbirth. Her disapproval of the marriages, created friction in her own marriage leading to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,8438,7010,7888,6572,9795,257,4687,21376,35101,7123,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-183536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-girls","tag-hands","tag-leone","tag-marriage","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-outlaws","tag-precedent","tag-sets","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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