Ethiopia’s Somali region says town attacked, amid new local flare ups
Addis AbabaReuters The local government in Ethiopia’s Somali region said on Tuesday militia from the neighbouring region of Afar had attacked and looted a town, the latest flare-up in a local boundary dispute that adds to broader tensions in the Horn of Africa nation. Ali Bedel, spokesperson for the Somali region government, said Afar militia […]
Wow!: Mobile camel library helps to keep Ethiopian children away from child labour
EMELINE WIULBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Ethiopia…
Pastor of underground church in Kenya beaten unconscious, sources say
Nairobi, KenyaMorning Star News The Somali pastor of an underground church in Kenya near the Somali border suffered a broken thigh bone and other injuries after Muslim extremists beat him with wooden clubs on Friday night, sources said. Pastor Abdul (whose surname has been withheld for security reasons), a 30-year-old father of three, had finished […]
Two Christian teachers killed by suspected al-Shabaab militants in northern Kenya
Suspected al-Shabaab militants killed two Christian teachers in northern Kenya last week, sources have told Morning Star News. The US-based news organisation reports that the miltants were believed to be behind an attack in which an improvised explosive device was detonated at a housing block where non-local teachers live in Mandera East, on Kenya’s border with […]
AFRICA: DRIVEN AWAY BY CONFLICT, THOUSANDS OF ETHIOPIANS STRANDED WITHOUT A HOME
TOM GARDNER reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the plight of thousands of Ethiopians forced from their homes…
Kenyan court orders Catholic bishops to pay Muslim restaurant owner $US125,000
RNS The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has been ordered to pay a Somali Muslim restaurant owner 13 million Kenyan shillings ($US125,000) for breach of contract and discrimination along ethnic and religious lines. The High Court in Nairobi ruled that the church owes the Al-Yusra Restaurant Ltd compensation for evicting it from Waumini House, where […]