Washington, September 16 : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s eldest daughter Zahara returned to her native Ethiopia for the first time since her adoption four years ago.

The four-year-old flew back home with her mother at the weekend.

It all happened when Jolie, currently in Kenya on a United Nations mission with partner Brad Pitt and their six children, broke away from the trip to cross the border into Ethiopia.

Zahara’s little sister Shiloh, 3, also accompanied them.

However, Pitt and the couple’s other four children stayed behind.

"On a trip to Kenya with their children, Angelina stopped in Dabaab Refugee Camp, and also flew to Ethiopia with Zahara and Shiloh for two days,” Contactmusic quoted a source as having told People. com.

"(It was) the first time Zahara had been back home since her adoption. The trip was about keeping up that culture for her," the source added.

If reports are to be believed, Jolie is looking for a property to build a tuberculosis and AIDS clinic in Zahara''s name.

The Hollywood couple jointly founded a similar organisation to aid impoverished children—known as the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project—after adopting their eight-year-old son Maddox from Cambodia in 2002. (ANI)