Perhaps the bells and whistles are different but such arranged, forced marriages for economic advantage have happened and continue to happen throughout the world and even in the “enlightened” West.
Part of the issue is that the massive amount of government assistance to countries like this has put the regular farmers out of business or down to subsistence levels. They cannot compete against free.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/03/world/even-with-peace-and-rain-ethiopia-fears-famine.html
Additionally, local armed groups steal or destroy what the villages have to force political or population changes.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/politics-famine-ethiopia
Sudan has just as many issues as Ethiopia but the MSM has not been as quick to report on it, just the Russia-Ukraine nexus stories.
Biden’s policies and the green left is deliberately starving the third world by reducing oil production. Heartless.