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Harare's streets are busy as hundreds of delegates to President Robert Mugabe's annual ZANU-PF conference converge from all over the country. The annual conference is being held as the death toll continues to climb from a cholera epidemic that has f
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New Agreement to Fight Human Trafficking Its estimated tens of millions of people may be the victims of modern-day human trafficking. On Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime pledged closer coope
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Somali kidnappers have released six foreign hostages. The four European aid workers and their two Kenyan pilots were released Tuesday after eight months of captivity. A car carrying people alleged to be former hostages in Somalia leaves Nairobi's Wi
Missing Kurdish Children Stir Claims, Concern in Turkey DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY A growing number of Kurdish families in Turkey are calling for the return of their children who they say have been abducted by the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK. The PKK denies
Nigeria Girls Missing, 11 Weeks After Abduction 尼日利亚女孩失踪11周后 WASHINGTON It's been almost three months since more than 200 school girls were abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. The kidnapping mad
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By Scott Stearns Rostock, Germany 06 June 2007 Japan and the United States want the world's leading industrialized nations to put more pressure on North Korea to comply with an international agreement aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. VOA
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 01 June 2007 At least three foreigners have been kidnapped by gunmen and two people injured in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt Friday. The incident comes days after new President Umaru Yar'Adua called for an end to
By Raymond Thibodeaux Gulu, Uganda 06 March 2006 It's not easy being a child anywhere, especially in northern Uganda, where thousands of children are forced to flee their villages every night to avoid
The US, China, France and the UK have all pledged to assist Nigeria in rescuing the schoolgirls who were kidnapped by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram on April 14th. Meanwhile, global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has claimed that the
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 09 November 2007 A journalist who was murdered by Maoists a month ago but remained missing until yesterday has been cremated in southern Nepal. Before the funeral there were angry scenes as mourners tried to burn down the h
By Noel King Kutum, Sudan 07 March 2007 The African Union mission, charged with monitoring Sudan's Darfur region, shoulders the enormous burden of providing security to some 2.5 million displaced people spread across a remote area the size of France.
By Margaret Besheer Ainkawa, Iraq 18 July 2006 Caught up in the sectarian attacks claiming dozens of Iraqi lives each day is the country's small Christian community. The Dora neighborhood of Baghdad has traditionally been home to many Iraqi Christia
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 July 2007 A three-year-old British toddler who was kidnapped last week in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state has been released and reunited with her family. Gilbert da Costa reports that Margaret Hill's abduction provoked a
By Kari Barber Port Harcourt, Nigeria 07 June 2007 Newly instated Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will face as one of his first challenges controlling the unruly and lawless Niger Delta. Kidnappings of foreigners have escalated as armed militants a
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 06 July 2007 Officials in the tense delta region of Nigeria are searching for the three-year-old daughter of a British oil worker who was abducted on Thursday. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the kidnapping o