A 43-year-old woman of Lusaka’s Mungule area has taken legal action against her 24-year-old daughter’s boyfriend, accusing him of running away and moving in with her daughter without her consent. In this case, Thelma Miyanda, a businesswoman, sued Mohammed Vimba, a 31-year-old businessman of Six Miles, for eloping with her daughter, Nancy Charlotte, who is Danish. The court heard that shortly after Charlotte got married and her husband went away on a peace keeping mission to Sierra Leone, she was impregnated by Vimba, who is of Indian origin. Miyanda has told the Matero Local Court that she had suffered shame, mockery, and humiliation from the community after it was discovered that her daughter was pregnant by another man just a...

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