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Africa's top peace and security body will hold a special heads-of-state level meeting on Zimbabwe during a continental summit this weekend in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. From the summit site, VOA's Peter Heinlein reports leaders are to c
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 08 November 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai Wednesday called on the world to plant one billion trees as part of a global effort to fight climate change. She launched the initiative at the United Nations' Clima
By Scott Stearns Accra, Ghana 17 January 2006 The Bush administration has joined six American universities with six African nations to develop new primary school curricula. U.S. first lady Laura Bush
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 April 2006 Majzoub Al-Khalifa, head of the Sudanese government's delegation (center) Warring parties from Western Sudan's devastated Darfur region and government represent
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 18 February 2006 Nigerian militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta have launched a new wave of attacks, including the kidnapping of nine foreign oil workers. The militants are t
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 27 February 2006 Bosnian survivors demonstrate, carrying banners bearing the names of each of the more than 8,000 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, outside the P
Tensions Rise Ahead of Planned North Korean Launch North Korea says it will launch this 32-meter-long rocket by April 16, with the goal of placing an Earth observation satellite into orbit. It will be the nation's third ballistic missile attempt, and
Bangladesh's government is negotiating with mutinous border guards who have clashed with their Army superiors in Dhaka. Heavy gunfire and the booms from mortar shells caused chaos in the densely populated streets of the Bangladeshi capital. A ricksh
The African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia has reached 50 percent of authorized strength for the first time, with more reinforcements expected soon. Africa Union peacekeepers man entrance to the presidential palace in the embattled Somalia ca
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 May 2006 The African Union troops in Darfur are to play a very important role in enforcing security in the aftermath of the Abuja accord. Gilbert da Costa reports from Abu
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 March 2006 The African Union Friday discussed extending the term of its peacekeeping mission in the volatile Darfur region of western Sudan until the end of this year. The
By Noel King Khartoum 02 February 2006 In the wake of increasing violence in Darfur the African Union special envoy to Sudan has blamed the largest Darfur rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army, for r
By Noel King Khartoum 10 December 2006 Fighting is flaring across Sudan's embattled western Darfur region, the Kenyan woman holds a poster during a protest march in Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Dec 2006 African Union warned Sunday. The AU reports at least 22 p
By Noel King Debbis, Darfur, Sudan 08 June 2006 The task of urging holdout rebels to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement has fallen to the African Union, which brokered the deal in Abuja, Nigeria. It is a difficult job, and across the region, AU peaceke
By Barry Newhouse Bangkok 03 August 2006 Thailand's foreign minister has expressed concern over Burma's refusal to say when it will free democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Kanthati Supamongkhon's comments followed a sudden and secretive half-day v
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 10 September 2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are seen during a joint news conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem Mr. Blair opened his visit in Jerusa
An African Union summit has ended in confusion over the future of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's dream of establishing a continental government. Mr. Gaddafi appears determined to push toward creation of a United States of Africa during his year as
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 16 May 2007 A.U. peacekeepers from Uganda patrol on an armored vehicle in Mogadishu, 14 May 2007 A hidden roadside bomb exploded in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, killing four African Union peacekeepers and woundin
By Noel King Nyala, Sudan 01 March 2007 The United Nations and international observers have identified rape as a tool used by Arab Janjaweed militias to terrorize women and girls in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. The African Union force charged with
By Cathy Majtenyi Kampala, Uganda 12 June 2007 Earlier this year, Uganda launched its Universal Secondary Education program to enable more students from low-income and rural families to get a high school education. Cathy Majtenyi files this report fo