Prisoners on death row demand conjugal rights: Prisoners on the hangman's list at Shimo la Tewa turned a family visiting day into a forum to demand conjugal rights. Buoyed by prison reforms that saw their prison gates flung open for the first time to allow their wives and children to visit yesterday, the inmates said it was wrong to deny them the rights.
Ethiopia opens its embassy in Mogadishu: Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somalia capital next to the presidential palace today, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with Somalia Government it wants to sustain.