According
to the statement written on the soft copy of a document circulating on
the Internet, Eritra has ordered their men to marry not less than two
wives or face life sentence.
This is contained in a statement in
Arabic by the Grand Mufti (the highest official of religious law in the
country) which scanned copy surfaced on social media sites on Thursday
last week.
In the statement, Eritrea called for all men in the
country to marry at least two wives and the government assured the men
that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and houses.
According
to the government, the order is because there is an acute shortage of
men occasioned by causalities during the civil war with Ethiopia.
The statement, though not officially confirmed, is written in Arabic. Here is the English translation.
Based
on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances 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.”
It
would be recalled that more than 150,000 Eritrean soldiers were killed
during the secession war from Ethiopia between 1998 and 2000. At the
time Eritrea had about four million people.
Eritrea, is a country
in theHorn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by
Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast.
The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive
coastline along the Red Sea, across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
The
nation has a total area of approximately 117,600 km, and includes the
Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Its name Eritrea
is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea, which was first adopted for
Italian Eritrea in 1890.
The country ranks that worst (189 out of
189) on the World Bank’s ease-of-doing-business index, but ranks 6th in
the world of countries with the most beautiful women.
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