Eritrean wedding the groom has to marry one more wife or he will be imprisoned
According to news reports published by Kenyan website,
the Eritrean Government has ordered men in Eritrea to marry at least two
wives or they may face jail and imprisonment. below is the story from
Hot in Juba website
Kenyans have received the news of mandatory polygamy by men in Eritrea with a mix of bewilderment and excitement.
Activists have posted a memo allegedly by the Government
of Eritrea asking men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage
of men occasioned by casualties during the civil war with Ethiopia.
In the statement written in Arabic assures of government support to the polygamous marriages.
The activists translate it thus, “Based on the law of
God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is
experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of
Religious Affairs has decided on the following .”
First that every man shall marry at least two women and
the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment
with hard labour.
“The woman who tries to prevent her husband from
marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment,” alleges
the activists in their translation.
The Standard could not immediately authenticate the
document nor the translation and it was not clear why the statement was
not in the other two national languages, Tigrinya and Tigre.
The May 1998 to June 2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war saw
150,000 soldiers killed from either sides but having a bigger impact on
male population in the tiny Eritrea nation who were then just 4million
people in total.
via Standard Kenya
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