VOA常速英语2007-Captive Breeding Program a Boost to Ailing Tasma

By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 October 2007 Australian researchers are teaming up with zoos and wildlife parks around the world in a bid to save the Tasmanian devil. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial and is being devastated by a mysterious facial tum

VOA常速英语2007-Amnesty International 'Spies' Released on Bail

By Selah Hennessy Dakar 09 October 2007 Two Amnesty International delegates and a local journalist arrested in Gambia Saturday have been released on bail. The human rights watchdog Amnesty International says their detention demonstrates the deteriora

VOA常速英语2007-UNHCR Security in Darfur Not Possible Without Pe

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, warns that thousands of African Union and UN peacekeepers will be unable to guarantee security in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur w

VOA常速英语2007-Aid Agency in Somaliland Freezes Work

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 11 October 2007 One of the last foreign aid agencies working in the self-declared Somaliland region in East Africa has suspended operations because of tension between Somaliland and its neighbor, Puntland. As Nick Wadhams repo

VOA常速英语2007-Kyrgyzstan's President Dissolves Parliament

By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 22 October 2007 Kyrgyzstan's president has dissolved his country's parliament, a day after a referendum in which voters approved broad constitutional amendments. Anya Ardayeva reports for VOA from Moscow a date for elections h

VOA常速英语2007-Somalia Forces Detain WFP Official

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 17 October 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says Somali security forces have stormed the U.N. compound in the capital Mogadishu and arrested the WFP local director. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the World Food Program

VOA常速英语2007-Scientists: Climate Change Could Affect World Fo

Maryland, south of Washington, DC 15 October 2007 Scientists are predicting there could be a global food crisis in this century if climate change continues unabated. VOA's Jeff Swicord reports. Buddy Hanse has been farming on land south of Washington

VOA常速英语2007-Chissano Awarded African Leadership Prize

By Tendai Maphosa London 22 October 2007 Former Mozambique President Joachim Chissano is the first recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan made the announcement in London. Tend

VOA常速英语2007-Ogaden Rights Group Says Refugees in Somalia Fac

By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17 October 2007 A group concerned with human rights in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region says refugees fleeing to neighboring Somalia are being rounded up by Somali authorities and handed over to Ethiopian troop

VOA常速英语2007-Somali Prime Minister Conciliatory After Talks A

By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 19 October 2007 Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has suggested he might be willing to step aside to avoid a divisive political struggle in parliament. His conciliatory comment came near the end of a th

VOA常速英语2007-EU, Iran Hold Nuclear Talks

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 24 October 2007 European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said a meeting in Rome with Iran's new top negotiator on Tehran's nuclear program was constructive. A new round of talks is expected to be held by the end o

VOA常速英语2007-Pressure Mounts for Government Talks with Niger

By Phuong Tran Dakar 07 October 2007 In Niger, civil society and government officials are increasing pressure on the president to negotiate with rebels to end a months-long deadly uprising in the north. Phuong Tran has more from VOA's West African bu

VOA常速英语2007-Nigeria Committed to Peacekeeping Despite Sudan

By Sarah Simpson Abuja 06 October 2007 Nigeria gave seven soldiers a state burial in the federal capital Abuja on Friday. The seven were killed while on a peacekeeping mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Sarah Simpson reports for VOA from Abuj

VOA常速英语2007-Republican Presidential Candidates in US Appeal

By Jim Fry Washington 05 October 2007 Gun control issues have faded into the background of national politics in the United States -- since Democrat Al Gore lost a close election for president in 2000. Many in his party blamed the defeat on a backlash

VOA常速英语2007-Researchers On Verge of Blood Test For Alzheimer

By Jessica Berman Washington 14 October 2007 An international team of scientists say they are on the verge of developing the first blood test for Alzheimer's disease which experts hope will help doctors identify patients with the memory-robbing disea

VOA常速英语2007-Sudan Military Accused of Killing Civilian Rebel

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 08 October 2007 A respected figure in the Darfur rebellion has accused the Sudanese military of killing more than 100 people in the town of Haskanita, where 10 African Union peacekeeping personnel were killed last week during an

VOA常速英语2007-Israeli Police Question PM in Connection with Co

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 October 2007 Israeli police have opened a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is the latest in a series of scandals that has eroded public s

VOA常速英语2007-Togolese Vote in Landmark Election

By Phuong Tran Dakar 14 October 2007 Voters in Togo started lining up at dawn Sunday to participate in a landmark election that presents the first major challenge to the ruling party. Observers say this year's vote promises to be the country's first

VOA常速英语2007-Displaced Children in Southern Sudan Seek Educat

By Lisa Schlein Juba, Sudan 15 October 2007 Nearly1,000 internally displaced children attend Kuku 'A' primary school in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan. Most of these children have returned with their families from neighboring countries or other

VOA常速英语2007-Bhutto Supporters Allege Insufficient Security i

By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 19 October 2007 Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are expressing outrage over the twin explosions that killed at least 125 people and wounded scores of others during her homecoming parade in Kar