Gebisa Ejeta was raised in a one-room hut in a rural village in west-central Ethiopia.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

In west and central Africa, one newborn in twenty dies.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Al-Shabab,which currently controls key towns in southern and central Somalia, was founded several years ago by al-Qaida-trained Somali radicals and is virulently anti-West.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01