By Kieran Guilbert GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Alone, hungry and traumatised having watched her parents die in war-torn Central African Republic, 14-year-old Koulsoumi believed the worst was behind her when she was taken in by a family in Cameroon after fleeing across the border last year. “They had a man for me to marry,” Koulsoumi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, cradling her four-month-old baby, Hamadou. Koulsoumi is one of 260,000 refugees – half of whom are children – from Central African Republic living in eastern Cameroon, a region with a population of around one million.
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Child marriage threatens future of young Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon