Day: April 1, 2015
- Africa
Ethiopian maid ‘accuses WHO official in Thailand of slavery’
(AFP) – Thai police said Wednesday they are investigating a senior Bangkok-based World Health Organization official and his wife after their Ethiopian maid accused them of modern-day slavery and physical abuse. The 25-year-old maid filed a complaint last month accusing her employers of beating her and forcing her to work without pay for nearly two years at their residence…
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Eritrea-Ethiopia: Not again!
The one noticeable result of the 1998-2000 border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia is that both sides came out bad losers. When, in May 1998, two brigades of Eritrean soldiers marched through an Ethiopian administered town of Bademe, a small and dusty town along the border with Eritrea, the pictures emerged didn’t alarm onlookers that it would take the…
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