Ethiopia withdraws troops from contested town

Ethiopia has started withdrawing its troops from Badme, a town formerly contested with Eritrea. This is seen as a concrete sign that the relationship between the two countries has warmed up following a peace agreement signed in July + The First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Bio, launches a campaign to fight child marriage and gender-based violence in her country and beyond + An online petition accusing Disney of 'colonialism and robbery' for trademarking the Swahili phrase 'Hakuna Matata' (meaning 'No Problem') gathers over 30000 signatures.

(Image: soldiers man a check point on a road leading to the eastern Ethiopian border town of Badme on November 5, 2008 Credit: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)