In another shocking incident, a nine-year-old at Kambira primary is 27 weeks pregnant Bulawayo24.com has learned.

The pregnancy came to light after suspicious school authorities took the grade 3 girl to Bindura Hospital on Wednesday and she tested positive.

Police said they are investigating the matter.

Two suspected juveniles were picked up last night and are assisting police with investigations.

The incident comes three days after another nine-year-old girl from Masekesa village in Tsholotsho gave birth to a baby boy on Monday.

A 9-year-old pregnant girl gives birth

THE nine-year-old girl from Masekesa village in Tsholotsho who made headlines recently after it emerged she was heavily pregnant has given birth to a baby boy.

State media reports the girl gave birth to a baby boy early Monday morning.

She becomes the second youngest mother worldwide.

Officials from the police department of social welfare in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare are investigating the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy.

The girl, according to some reports, was under the care of United Bulawayo Hospital.

Police have, however, arrested the girl's father despite several attempts by the authorities to persuade the minor to reveal the perpetrator.

Reports had however indicated that the 29-year-old father incredibly claimed that goblins visited his daughter on the nights only when her mother was away and inserted things into her privates.

Globally, an estimated 15 percent of young women give birth before the age of 18.

Zimbabwe has had a high increase in child marriages and early pregnancies with authorities in the country saying more than a third of girls are married before the age of 18, and some are married before 15.

This year President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law the Marriages Act which prohibits the marriage of minors under the age of 18 and criminalizes child marriages.

In 2018, about 3,000 girls dropped out of school because of pregnancies.

In 2019, that number remained relatively steady while in 2020, the number rose to 4,770.

The figure skyrocketed in 2020 to about 5,000 students getting pregnant in the year's first two months.