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‘Cursed’, blind female Ethiopian rights lawyer shares ‘alternative Nobel Prize’

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Thomson Reuters Foundation Blind Ethiopian lawyer Yetnebersh Nigussie (left) and Rupert Roniger, CEO of Light for the World, in 2013. PICTURE: Light for the World. At just five-years-old, Yetnebersh Nigussie’s world went dark. After contracting a fever as a child, no amount of “holy water” or traditional medicine in rural Ethiopia was enough to stop […]