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

VOA: special.2009.06.16

And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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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