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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 The U.N. refugee agency is ending its repatriation program for Liberian refugees Saturday. Since the operation began 2.5 years ago, the UNHCR has helped more than 100,000 refugees return home from neighboring count
By Kari Barber Bensonville, Liberia 30 May 2008 African countries have some of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world. Lack of hospitals, lack of road access and transportation and lack of trained medical personnel are all reasons cited by h
The Tertiary Education Commission (the TEC) announced the funding for polytechs and universities for the next 3 years. The TEC is the government organisation responsible for tertiary institutions like polytechs and universities so this is government
By Scott Stearns White House 04 January 2006 U.S. First Lady Laura Bush will attend the inauguration of Liberian president-elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf later this month. She will be joined by Secretary
By Stephanie Ho Washington 02 July 2006 Violence continues to escalate in the latest confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians, as both sides blame each other for the crisis. Israeli and Palestinian representatives repeated their accusations
标准英语,VOA,Africa,Laura,Bush,By Scott Stearns Accra 15 January 2006 Laura Bush, center, holds hands with 10-year-old Aisha Garuba as she is greeted by Ghanaian officials U.S. first lady Laura Bush is in Africa at the start of a f
By Nico Colombant Dakar 17 March 2008 Police in Ghana have arrested Liberian refugees who were leading protests at a camp outside the capital Accra. The refugees had refused to stop their month-long demonstration against a U.N.-funded repatriation pr
By Jordan Davis Dakar 15 February 2007 The speaker of Liberia's House of Representatives resigned Thursday, following a boycott of his legislative sessions by many lawmakers. Jordan Davis reports from VOA's regional bureau in Dakar. Edwin Snowe (Jan
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 Mwai Kibaki (file photo) The United States has banned a former aide to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and three prominent Kenyan businessmen from entering the United States under U.S. anti-corruption legislation.
By Paula Wolfson White House 21 March 2006 President Bush, right, meets with Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Washington Pres
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 27 March 2006 Compound of the house where former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor lives near the sea side town of Calaber Supporters close to deposed Liberian leader Charles Taylo
Forces loyal to Somalia's embattled government say they have pushed out Islamist insurgents from the strategic capital of Beledweyne in the central Hiran region. But the insurgents claim they made a tactical retreat and have not been defeated. Contr
Africa Set to Continue Growth Except in Ebola-Infected Areas World Bank figures are beginning to confirm the impact of the crisis on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. New data shows the service sectors of the three countries have bee
Poverty, Ignorance, Fear Force Underage Girls Into Marriage 贫困无知迫使女孩早婚 WASHINGTON The recent marriage of a 17-year old Chechen girl to a local police chief who was 30 years older and already had a wife caused an outcry in Russia a
US President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman. The decision follows days of violent protests in the St. Louis suburb
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible loss of vision worldwide and now doctors believe the devastating disease begins in the brain and not in the eye as has long been thought. Dr. David Calkins, director of research at the Vanderbilt Eye Inst
By Franz Wild Abidjan 08 May 2006 A study by the Britian-based aid group, Save the Children, says humanitarian workers and peacekeepers in Liberia are sexually exploiting girls as young as eight. The
By David Gollust Washington 17 April 2006 Scott McClellan The United States is condemning officials of Hamas, which now runs the Palestinian Authority, for remarks condoning the suicide attack Monday
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 October 2006 Many Kenyans are criticizing a controversial proposal by a Kuwaiti company to develop the historic area of Lamu on Kenya's north coast, saying that the proposal has not followed proper procurement procedures
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given a big boost of support to embattled Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf whose Truth and Reconciliation Commission has recommended that she be barred from holding further public office. 美国国务