'I was too young': Refugee girls fall victim to child marriage and sexual violence

By Matt Wade
Updated January 24 2015 - 3:18am, first published 12:15am
Dadaab: Inside the world's biggest refugee camp. Women who are victims of sexual violence inside the camp. Rape victims Habibo, 23 and Lulu, 24 (not their real names) were both married at the age of 13 and soon became mothers. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Dadaab: Inside the world's biggest refugee camp. Women who are victims of sexual violence inside the camp. Rape victims Habibo, 23 and Lulu, 24 (not their real names) were both married at the age of 13 and soon became mothers. Photo: Edwina Pickles

She's been married, divorced, raped, lost a baby, survived a famine and become a refugee. And Halima is only 16.

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