Ahmed Muhamed Dore and his new wife Safia Abdulleh
The couple posed for photos at the wedding celebrations
Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife. Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old."Today God helped me realise my dream," Mr Dore said, after the wedding in the region of Galguduud. The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband". Mr Dore said he and his bride - who is young enough to be his great-great-grand-daughter - were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose.
"I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said.
Goat-skin documents The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage, in the town of Guriceel, is being described by Somali historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for more than a century.
map. Some people said while it was allowed under Islamic law, they were concerned about the age gap, but others were happy that age was not a barrier to love. Mr Dore told the BBC he was born in Dhusamareeb in central Somalia in 1897 - and has a traditional birth certificate, written on goat skin by his father.
Our correspondent says he has an interesting history - in 1941 he joined the British colonial forces as a soldier for 10 years and then served as a police officer after Somalia won independence in 1960.
Altogether, Mr Dore has 114 children and grandchildren. His oldest son is 80 years old and three of his wives have died.
He says he hopes his new bride will give him more children.
"It is a blessing to have someone you love to take care of you," he said.

OMG poor girl, wtf is he trying to prove?

The look on the girl face says it all. Poor thing.

Wtf...africans and mumuism

well, Rokiatu, oya make we start our own ooo. I dey backyard dey wait u

98 yrs older dan her.

Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I hear say that lady is 17years?





I give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We give up!!!..*in yuzedo's voice*

Thank God this is coming from rokiatu, if you don't date me now, 5 yrs later, I will be chasing someone years which means you become old again but if you date me now, we continue till century

He might be 112 but the stuff in between his legs is 19. lol

He might be 112 but the stuff in between his legs is 19. lol

Alikaxon: 98 yrs older dan her.

God forbid bad thing

See enslavement. I pity for d girl.

Where there is not plenty of food....puszy makes up for it!

This has gone beyond child abuse, this is child insult. Who allowed that girl to marry her ancestor?

Words fail me!

God!!!