Earlier this year, when news of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl's impending forced marriage went viral on social media, police swung into action: Her parents were arrested, and so was her husband-to-be, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are seeing “dramatic” increases in child marriage ...

A scene from the popular Ethiopian soap opera Yegna, which sends messages about health and well-being to its teen viewers. Topics range from child marriage to menstrual pads. Tsega is a teenager who ...

ADDIS ABABA, May 3, 2018 – Ethiopia’s economy could potentially lose billions of dollars annually due to child marriage, says a new report by the World Bank and the International Center for Research ...

Tsega is a teenager who wants to be a doctor. But the high schooler's parents want her to marry an older man who is well-off – and could support her parents, who are old and not rich. That's the ...