Eswatini King's Questionable Marriages

In 2001, King Mswati III of Eswatini imposed a ban on sex with girls under 18. Two months later, he married his ninth wife, who was 17, and fined himself "one cow" for breaking the law. In 2005, he repealed the law to marry another 17-year-old, and three months later, he married an 18-year-old.

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