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Child marriage: Some girls still being sold for cows in South Sudan
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Child marriage: Some girls still being sold for cows in South Sudan

Young girls are still being auctioned off into marriage in exchange for cows in South Sudan, activists have said. The issue was one they had hoped to raise with the Pope when he visited the country in two weeks – a trip that has now been postponed because he is not well enough to travel….