If her hunger wasn’t satisfied, there’s nothing we could do.”Then, as it is the case now, Niger has the world’s highest rate of child marriage. (Sudarsan Raghavan/The Washington Post)I met Fayrouz Ahmed Haider in a grim refugee camp in Yemen. I met Balki in the summer of 2012. Like Fayrouz, she had also been married off as a child. She reminded me of someone else: a girl I had met thousands of miles away in the West African nation of Niger.

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2016 06:56 UTC