Eshetu Alemu insists prosecutors have got the wrong man. He says he’s a teacher not a killer.

The quietly spoken joint Dutch Ethiopian citizen admits he handled propaganda for Mengistu Haile Mariam who overthrew Haile Selassie and led Ethiopia until his defeat when he sought refuge in Zimbabwe.

In fluent Dutch Eshetu Alemu says he had nothing to do with the thousands of killings by Mengistu who ignored a famine that killed a million people.

Prosecutor Wim de Bruin says hundreds of witnesses have come forward.

Alemu’s trial will show there is no impunity for war criminals – even after 40 years.

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Boy details have been given about the damage caused by the second strike under the new authority.

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The US military has asked for more strikes against Al Shabaab, which is Al Qaeda’s third largest affiliate, because its expanding operations against African Union troops that are preparing to withdraw next year.

Al Shabaab is also taking advantage to the famine gripping up to six million people in the Horn of Africa.

Earlier this year, a small group of U.S. forces deployed to Somalia for the first time since they pulled out in 1994.

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He calls the starvation facing millions of his people a man-made disaster.

The world’s newest country has become the planet’s most desperate.

Speaking to the BBC his capital Juba , President Salva Kiir blames his sacked deputy, Riek Machar for stoking ethnic tension and violating a ceasefire.

Nevertheless Kiir’s postponed presidential elections due next year to give government and rebel forces more time to achieve reconciliation.

At least two ceasefires have broken down within days.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died in fighting that taken an ethnic turn.

More than a million people have fled their homes since fighting broke out last December after Machar was accused of plotting a coup.

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