People in Mandera county, north-east Kenya, are celebrating the wedding of 80-year-old Abdullahi Ibrahim to a 60-year-old woman, Kahija, reports the BBC's Ahmed Adan.
He says that whereas an old man marrying a young bride is not so unusual, this kind of union is rare.
Abdullahi, who already has four other wives, told the BBC's Somali service about how delighted he is:
The 60-year-old lady is the best thing that happened to me. She makes me happy... in her nice words and the delicious food she cooks. She gives me all that I could not get by marrying a young girl.This woman suits me as we are both old. Thanks to God.”
Abdullahi said his children (one of them is pictured on the right below) were in favour of the marriage:
