Across South Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, and Somalia, 20 million people are at risk for famine, said U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. 南苏丹、也门、尼日利亚、索马里等国有2000万人面临饥荒的威

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(6月)

President Donald Trump addressed a group of African leaders during his trip to New York. He told them, We hope to extend our economic partnerships with countries that are committed to self-reliance and to fostering opportunities for job creation in b

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The spread of violent extremism and terrorism pose significant challenges to Africa's security, long-term development goals, and democratic gains, said U.S Ambassador to the African Union Mary Beth Leonard. These threats to the global community, she

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Gaming Industry Breaks Gender Barriers in Pakistan 巴基斯坦的游戏公司打破了性别障碍 LAHORE In a country where women's rights are often ignored, Pakistan's young gaming industry is breaking gender barriers. An example is two start-up c

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AS IT IS 2016-12-05 Africans Demand for Democracy Declines 非洲人民对民主的需求下降 A report about a new public opinion survey shows that a ten-year-long period of Africans demanding democracy has recently ended, and such demands have bee

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The Nigerian Sound of Afrobeat By John Kuti My surname Kuti is a normal Hungarian surname it means something like Wells as in the places where you get water out of the ground. By a strange coincidence Kuti is also a name in Nigerian. In the Yoruba la

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 英语音频杂志

First Ladies in Africa Creating Change for Women Last month, The Washington Post published an opinion piece about reports that the United States government had separated 2,000 children from their parents. The writer was Laura Bush, wife of former U.S

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AS IT IS 2013-10-17 Trouble for Greeces Far-Right Party Golden Dawn 希腊极右派政党-金色黎明党深陷麻烦事端 Hello, and welcome to As It Is -- the daily magazine show from VOA Learning English! Im George Grow. 大家好,欢迎来到原

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AS IT IS 2015-05-03 Hippos: The Life Force of African Rivers 河马:非洲河流的生命力量 The hippopotamus is an animal very important to the health of Africa's rivers and lakes. Their dung, or solid waste, helps Africas aquatic ecosystem. But

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AS IT IS 2016-08-08 Football Player's Non-Profit Supports Start-ups in Africa 足球员创办的非营利组织在非洲支持初创企业 While recovering from a football injury, an American college student named John Cefalu decided to use his free

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AS IT IS 2016-04-26 Remembering African Music Great Papa Wemba 非洲知名音乐人帕帕文巴表演中猝死 Music lovers are remembering one of Africas greatest musicians. The Congolese music star Papa Wemba died on Sunday after collapsing at a m

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Rocket Explosion Hurts Facebooks Internet Plans for Africa 火箭爆炸影响脸谱的非洲互联网计划 Plans to make Internet connections easier to get in Africa were hurt this month when a rocket exploded in the U.S. state of Florida. The rocke

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Diagnosing Africa Conflict 诊断非洲冲突 A new research project focuses on Africas capacity to prevent, contain and resolve conflicts. The Canadian-based Center for International Governance Innovation said a better understanding is needed of the

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非洲艾滋病妇女仍面临歧视 New research shows that more than 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, African women living with the HIV still face much stigma and discrimination. The study says its affecting efforts to prevent mother-to-child t

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Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has hailed China as an inspiration to Africa and elsewhere in the world. The comment came during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the capital Accra on Thursday. President Mahama said China ha

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We heard it in other forms. And who are these? Where are the different countries? 这是个老问题了。中间这些人是谁?他们在哪些国家? I can show you Africa. This is Africa. 10% the world population, most in poverty. 先看非洲。

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I have a peculiar stick and I often ask people to guess what it is made of. 我有一根奇特的棍子,我常常让人猜它是什么做的, They usually say horn or hard rubber. for it will bend. 一般都回答是用动物角或硬橡胶做的,

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The teenaged Texas Tech cheerleader who created a social media firestorm with photos of the African big game she hunted has fired back at her online attackers. 一名德州理工大学的青年女学生、拉拉队长在社交网络上晒出自己猎杀

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Civil war is emptying huge swaths of South Sudan. The violence has uprooted four million people, including two million who've fled to neighboring countries. In the last year, more than a million South Sudanese have poured into northern Uganda alone,

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Jessica: Ashley, when you went to Kenya did you do a safari? Ashley: Yes, it was incredible. Uh, we went of a five day safari. We were up every morning at 4:30 in the morning, um, to watch the animals and then we would have all day to kind of sit bac

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