{"id":220929,"date":"2026-04-19T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220929"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:48:44","slug":"why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220929","title":{"rendered":"Why Ending Child Marriage is Key to Advancing Africa\u2019s Economic Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the United Nations Population Division). They embody the energy, creativity, and potential of the continent. It is undeniable that The Africa We Want, as envisioned in the African Union\u2019s Agenda 2063&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2026\/02\/why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development-300x138.jpg",300,138,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development.jpg",624,288,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220929-why-ending-child-marriage-is-key-to-advancing-africas-economic-development-590x288.jpg",590,288,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}