Ethiopia’s child brides
Amhara girl (Flickr image: Evgeniy Zotov)
For our Geo Quiz, we visit the Horn of Africa. We’re looking for a region of northwestern Ethiopia.
This region is home to an ethnic people who speak the Amharic language.
And it’s home to Lake Tana, a source of the Blue Nile.
The answer is Amhara, where some world leaders, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are gathered to raise awareness about the issue of child marriage. The answer is Amhara. Anchor Marco Werman gets the story from the BBC’s Will Ross.
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