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By Nico Colombant Dakar 25 January 2007 Efforts to determine who can get nationality papers in divided Ivory Coast are slowly resuming, while talks are being prepared between the president and northern rebels. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our r
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
Israeli President Shimon Peres told his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, during a brief meeting Thursday in the Sinai resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, that Israel was prepared to accept the 2002 Arab peace plan as the basis of a global peace agree
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is defending the U.S. decision to abstain on the U.N. Security Council resolution approved late Thursday calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Rice said the resolution, approved by
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned the strikes spreading across Britain protesting the employment of foreign European workers, while unemployment soars in the country. Britain's PM Gordon Brown speaks on Britain and the Global economy (File)
1,000 Dead in Nigeria Communal Violence 尼日利亚公共暴力造成1000人死亡 While attacks by the militant group Boko Haram have killed many people in northern Nigeria, communal violence is also taking a toll. The group Human Rights Watch saID
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 18 October 2006 South African President Thabo Mbeki says he has relinquished his role as mediator in the Ivory Coast political crisis. The announcement came at a meeting of top African Union officials in Ethiopia. ----- Th
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 03 May 2006 Senior Western and African diplomats have intensified their mediation at the deadlocked Darfur talks in Abuja. Darfur's two main rebel groups, the SLM and JEM, ha
By Brian Wagner Caracas 02 December 2007 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has accused Colombia again of sabotaging a humanitarian deal that he was trying to negotiate with Colombian rebels. In Caracas, VOA's Brian Wagner reports Mr. Chavez claimed h
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 09 November 2009 Election officials in Iraq say the next general election will take place January 21. The announcement one day after a last-minute deal on the nation's electoral law, means the vote will be held within the t
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 08 January 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has pledged to strengthen the world body's role in stopping wars and keeping peace. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports on Mr. Ban's first speech
Russia says Ukraine is stealing natural gas destined for Europe, as several countries have complained about a reduction of Russian gas deliveries from a pipeline passing through Ukraine. Kyiv has denied the charges, citing technical difficulties aft
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 06 September 2006 Israel says it will lift its blockade of Lebanon's air and seaports on Thursday. It is a boost to the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. A Lebanese soldier paints c
Delegates from Zimbabwe's main political parties are meeting in Pretoria, South Africa to discuss future negotiations toward ending the crisis in Zimbabwe. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg. Zimbabwe's Pre
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 12 June 2007 Africa's political and business elite are in Capetown, South Africa, for the opening of the World Economic Forum on Africa. Five heads of state and more than 700 delegates from 42 countries are seeking ways to
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 November 2006 There has been mixed reaction in Israel and the Palestinian territories to a new European peace initiative. Announcement of the plan came as leaders of rival Palestinian factions reported progress on the f
By David Gollust Jerusalem 03 May 2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday defended President Bush's plan to visit Israel later this month for celebrations of its 60th anniversary, without making a corresponding visit to Palestinian areas. R
South Africa's new government has asked former president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday to continue as the region's mediator in Zimbabwe's political crisis despite his ousting as president. But, as Peta Thornycroft reports, Zimbabwean President Robert Muga
By Scott Stearns Dakar 19 October 2009 Guinea's military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara(file photo) Facing a regional arms embargo, Guinea's military ruler says he is ready to continue with mediation efforts. But Captain Moussa Camara says he wi
By Nathan Morley Nicosia 20 October 2009 Greece and Cyprus have said they support Turkey's bid to become a full member of the European Union and needed its help to end the island's decades-old division. The announcement comes as Greek Prime Minister