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WORLD NEWS Monday 10 deceMber 2018

Nobel peace winners demand action against sex abuse U.S. airstrike
outside Somalia’s

By DAVID KEYTON capital kills 4 al-
Associated Press Shabab
OSLO, Norway (AP) — One
of the winners of this year’s JOHANNESBURG (AP)
Nobel Peace Prize says — The U.S. military says
the attention the prize has it has killed four mem-
drawn to sexual violence bers of the al-Shabab
against women in war extremist group with a
zones must be followed by “self-defense airstrike”
action against the abuses. outside Somalia’s capi-
Dr. Denis Mukwege spoke tal after partner forces
Sunday at a news confer- were attacked.
ence with Nadia Murad of The U.S. Africa Com-
Iraq, with whom he shared mand statement says
the 9-million Swedish kronor the airstrike occurred on
($1 million) prize. Mukwege Saturday near Basra, a
was honored for his work community outside the
helping sexually abused capital, Mogadishu. The
women at the hospital he U.S. military has carried
founded in the Democratic out 39 airstrikes this year
Republic of Congo. Murad, against the al-Qaida-
a Yazidi, won for her advo- linked al-Shabab, Afri-
cacy for sex abuse victims ca’s most active Islamic
after being kidnapped by Nobel peace price laureates Nadia Murad, left, and Dr. Denis Mukwege look on during the press extremist group, which
Islamic State militants. conference at the Nobelinstituttet in Oslo, Sunday Dec. 9, 2018. controls parts of rural
“What we see during Associated Press southern and central
armed conflicts is that Yazidi minority group who women, despite regardless treated countless women Somalia and continues
women’s bodies become were kidnapped in 2014 of the heavy stigma in her who were raped amid fight- to stage deadly attacks
battlefields and this can- by IS militants and sold into culture surrounding rape. ing between armed groups in Mogadishu and other
not be acceptable during sexual slavery. She was She said Sunday it was dif- seeking to control of some cities. The U.S. airstrikes
our time,” Mukwege said, raped, beaten and tor- ficult “for a girl, a woman, the central African nation’s have picked up dra-
speaking through a trans- tured before managing to to rise up to say that these vast mineral wealth. matically since President
lator. “We cannot only de- escape three months later. atrocities have happened.” He expressed concern Donald Trump took of-
nounce it, we now need to After getting treatment in Mukwege, a 63-year-old Sunday that new violence fice and approved ex-
act.” Murad, 25, was one Germany, she chose to surgeon, founded a hospi- could be coming as Con- panded military opera-
of an estimated 3,000 girls speak to the world about tal in the city of Bukavu and go holds a general election tions in the Horn of Africa
and women from Iraq’s the horrors faced by Yazidi over the past 20 years has this month. q nation. q