MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Hafsa was married at age 13 by her father to a man who paid $ 100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before convincing him to divorce her. Nurta Mohamed, 13, a Somali girl sits in her mother’s prose shelter …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia has arrested more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the State Judicial Commission on Human Rights told Reuters, raising fears that a government seeking reform is returning to the iron fist tactics of previous rule. Aselefech Mulatu, wife of Dejene Tafa, a politician …
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $ 3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, taking another step closer to solving one of the most divisive policies of the era of Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam is filling up, its water minister said on Wednesday, a day after talks with Sudan and Egypt over the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric project . A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Great …
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