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