Angelina Jolie, Pitt build Ethiopian AIDS clinic

(Dec 16, 2011, AU News)--Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are building an AIDS clinic in their adopted daughter Zahara's native Ethiopia to ensure she will always stay in touch with her African roots.

Gift of the Nile (By Mohamed Khalil)

(Dec 15, 2011, The Daily News Egypt)--As Egyptians, we are effectively living in one big oasis. A vast and barren desert, the world’s largest, cut through straight down the middle of our borders by the world’s longest river. This is a fact that we seem to miss. Collectively and as individuals we do not see the imperative need for us to be extremely prudent with our most important and divine endowment  water.

Ethiopian family reunited after 10 years apart

(Dec 15, 2011, CBC News)--It was a day that was a decade in the waiting. After 10 years apart, Wakwaya Seda was finally reunited with his wife and son Wednesday.