Child marriage or starvation? A family's difficult choice
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As drought parches Somalia and dries up drinking-water wells, Abdir Hussein felt she had one last shot to help her family: her 14-year-old daughter Zeinab's beauty. Zeinab, 14, 2nd left, poses for photograph with her family beside their shelter at a camp for people displaced from drought-hit areas, Dollow, Somalia, April 3, 2017.