In recent years, West Africa’s highest court and a pan-African human rights body have ruled the expulsion of pregnant girls to be in violation of legally binding African charters on children’s rights, ...

An Amber Alert was issued on February 6 for a 16-year-old girl. Officials said she was three-months pregnant at the time. She was believed to be with the Gary Day, the 40-year-old man who impregnated ...