The African report on child wellbeing 2013: Towards greater accountability to Africa’s children

The report ranks Africa’s most and least child-friendly governments based on a range of factors, indicators and data, including child marriage.

It also highlights three types of legal approaches that countries have adopted to address child marriage across Africa:

• Countries that criminalise the practice


• Countries that ban or invalidate marriages below the minimum age


• Countries that prescribe a minimum age of marriage without criminalising or banning the practice.