MEKELE, Ethiopia -- She was famine's poster child -- a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body wrapped in a white burial ...

2005-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Axum, Ethiopia-- Abebe Alemyehu was 12 when he watched Mussolini's army storm into his northern Ethiopian hometown of Axum to carry off its ancient obelisk. Today, the 81 ...