Young girls in the Becheve community, a group of 17 villages in Obanliku, Nigeria, are regularly exchanged for food, livestock, cash, or to settle their parents' debts with neighbours.
Nigerian child brides as young as ten are being advertised on Facebook and then sold to pay off their parents' debts - it has been claimed.
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