Sixteen - year - old Chika is married by auction

According to the organisation for child rights protection, “Plan International”, five men were interested in the girl, some of whom are believed to be senior officials of the Sudanese government. Activists are concerned that this case will push other families to use social networks to marry their daughters because of the greater benefit of material goods.

It is believed that the girl's father took 500 cows, three cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter. The chairman of the organisation “Plan International” said it is incredible that girls are being sold for marriage and that this represents outdated use of technology.

On the other hand, Facebook removed the post after 15 days after it was published. No form of human trafficking, whether in the form of posts, pages, ads or groups, is allowed on Facebook. We removed the post and permanently closed the account that belonged to the person who made that post on Facebook”, a Facebook official said.

The marriage of young girls is a widespread phenomenon in some African and Asian countries. The three countries with the highest percentage of juvenile marriages are: Nigeria, 76%, Central African Republic, 68% and Chad, 67%. Meanwhile, the three countries with the largest number of juvenile marriages are: India, with 26.6 million, Bangladesh, with 3.9 million and Nigeria, with 3.3 million people, writes “CNN”