Namibia Tribe Marks Genocide, Demands Reparations

Hundreds of Herero tribespeople gathered in Botswana on Saturday to pay homage to ancestors killed by German soldiers in Namibia who almost wiped out their people a century ago. Tribal leaders used Saturday's commemoration to press their demands for $4 billion in compensation from Germany's government and companies which they say benefited from slavery and exploitation under German rule of what is now Namibia. [more]