Tanzania's Samia Suluhu allows teen mothers back in class

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu. PHOTO | POOL 

Teen mothers in Tanzania who had been stopped from returning to classes have been allowed back to school, in a big policy shift by President Samia Suluhu's administration.

The change in policy comes four years after late president John Magufuli decreed that pregnant schoolgirls be expelled and teen mothers be blocked from returning to school, a move that drew widespread criticism both locally and internationally.