Emirates 247 A 15-year-old Kuwaiti boy used a large stick to torture his Ethiopian housemaid to death before he was arrested by the police, a newspaper reported on Monday. The boy’s mother had told police the maid had been beaten up by unknown assailants during her weekend but her claims were not convincing, Al Watan
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Gulf News Dubai: An Emirati housewife lost her legal battle on Monday after Dubai’s highest court confirmed that she will spend 15 years in prison for beating and torturing her maid to death. The Dubai Cassation Court rejected the appeal of the 46-year-old housewife, R.M., for a reduced punishment and confirmed her 15-year imprisonment. R.M.
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By Charlton Doki IPS JUBA-Twenty-year-old Wani Lo Keji stares at the sky as his herd of cattle drink water from the eastern bank of the Nile River, just opposite South Sudan’s capital, Juba. “We bring our animals here everyday because the seasonal river near our village has dried. There were many herders fighting for water
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AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Turkey’s Anadolu Agency on Monday officially inaugurated its new regional bureau in Addis Ababa as part of the agency’s plans to bolster its Africa coverage. “I am honored to see ministers and ambassadors attending the inauguration of our office in Ethiopia,” AA Director-General and Board Chairman Kemal Ozturk said at the opening
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Global Voices Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle Join Nigerian bloggers Blossom Nnodim (@blcompere) and Nwachukwu Egbunike (@feathersproject), along with Global Voices editor Ndesanjo Macha (@ndesanjo) from Tanzania for an Africa-wide tweetathon in support of the nine bloggers and journalists arrested in late April and currently being detained in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of friends
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By APA Justice ministers and attorney generals of African Union (AU) member countries are scheduled to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 15 and16, to consider a draft protocol to expand the authority of the African Court on Justice and Human Rights, sources said Monday.The authority is expected to be extended to include criminal
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam The 2010 European Union Election Observation Mission Ethiopia made the understatement of the decade when it observed, “The electoral process fell short of certain international commitments, Whether the people of Ethiopia are better off in 2014 than they were in 2010 or in 2005 is the sole question that should be
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The New York Times Photo by Mr. Tsegaye Over the last 16 years, he has been making pictures of rural and urban Ethiopia as his homeland transforms itself. He captures sweeping panoramas, of markets springing up along newly built roads, or small details, like the cracked images on gravestones being moved to make way for
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MAY 12, 2014 We signed peace deal under duress, Kiir claims By MABIOR MACH Daily Nation Juba_South Sudan President Salva Kiir has claimed that he and former vice president turned rebel leader Dr Riek Machar signed a peace deal Friday in Addis Ababa to avoid threats of arrest by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn. The truce,
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