KPBS

She writes for a hit Ethiopian soap opera. This year, the plot turns on 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 ...
Forbes

UNICEF Is Working To End Child Marriage In Ethiopia

Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. After 13-year-old Zemzem was abducted in southern Ethiopia, quick-thinking members of a UNICEF-supported youth group ...
Reuters

Ethiopian girl wins $150,000 for rape, abduction and marriage at 13

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Ethiopian government has been ordered to pay $150,000 to a girl who said she was raped, abducted and forced to agree to marriage at the age of 13, in a ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

She writes for a hit Ethiopian soap opera. This year, the plot turns on child marriage

The show is Yegna. Its goal (besides entertainment) is to tackle issues affecting teen girls (and boys, too), from a lack of menstrual pads to why... Tsega is a teenager who wants to be a doctor. But ...
NPR

She writes for a hit Ethiopian soap opera. This year, the plot turns on child marriage

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 ...