KENYA-SOMALIA: Fatuma Mohamed, "I refuse to sell my daughter"
KAKUMA, 21 June 2010 (IRIN) - Fatuma Mohammed, a refugee from Somalia, has been living with her six children in a camp in Kakuma, northwest Kenya, since March 2006. She told IRIN how her husband had tried to sell her then 14-year-old daughter into marriage.
"One day a middle-aged man from our community came knocking on my door asking for my daughter. When I asked him why he wanted to see her he said, 'She belongs to me, she is my wife'.
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