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New relief projects for Ethiopia

Opening the floodgates to freedom and prosperity in Ethiopia

By Adia Wilson

Addis Ababa - Ethiopia is a strange beautiful country. At times it feels

almost biblical, as if time had stopped at a certain stage, giving tradition

and religion the necessary space to evolve in a way that is unknown to

the western world. Ethiopia is the cradle of humankind, the birthplace of

coffee, the purported resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. Then again

Ethiopia feels like a place that has gone a long way already, that has been

wounded and has suffered immensely but is now ready to catch up with the

21st century. The Ethiopians believe in their future and want to leave the horrible

images of the great famine in the 1980s forever behind - why can't we? (More....)

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A riverboat to the orangutans

By riverboat to the Garden of Eden

A trip to Borneo's endangered orangutans
By Carola Frentzen

Kumai, Indonesia - The air in paradise is full of smoke. It's hot and humid

and the lungs fill with the heavy air of forest fires. Kalimantan. Country

of legend, tradition and culture. Country with a unique and still unexplored

flora and fauna. And unfortunately, country with a variety of problems.

"It has never been this bad before. The rains simply won‘t start,"
says Anang, a travel guide in Indonesian Borneo who takes travellers

on a boat trip to Tanjung Puting National Park.
This is the home of the orangutan, the fascinating "Man of the forest". (More....)

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Struggling for equality in India

A Woman's day in Delhi - Struggling for equality in India

By Myla Green

New Delhi - At each stop on the super modern and fancy-looking Delhi Metro, the recording of a male voice announces the name of the stop and implores passengers to give up their seat for the elderly, physically disabled people, and ladies. Upon hearing each announcement, I promptly rolled my eyes, and looked around at the other women on the train, wondering if they felt similar annoyance at this condescending comparison. (More....)

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Surprising Rabat

The Moroccan Dream is alive in Rabat

By Carlo Tortora Brayda

Rabat - If you were to think about a peaceful place, surrounded by orange trees, where history, tradition, magic, meditation and progress all merge into one, you would not automatically think of Rabat. Yet Rabat is a spellbinding city, from the Kasbah to the Medina it is rich with the fibre of Moroccan tales interwoven with a lightness of being which is unmatched in the other big cities of Morocco. (More....)

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