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A U.S. official says Washington wants to cooperate with China to help Africa develop. China has been criticized for its dealings with abusive African governments, but has also won applause for encouraging dialogue between Sudan and the international
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 23 May 2006 Hawker with little skyscrapers in background in Abidjan A new term being used to describe economic realities in West Africa is de-development. Life in cities buil
By Aya Batrawy Cairo 11 February 2008 Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians staged a noisy celebration across the country following their soccer team's one-zero victory over Cameroon in the African Cup of Nations finals. Aya Batrawy has more for VOA fro
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 December 2006 Authorities in South Africa say traffic fatalities on the nation's roads have declined during the December holiday period in comparison with last year. They credit the drop to a program of road checks, dri
By William Eagle Washington 27 September 2006 A first of its kind conference meant to outline the challenges and potential of investing in areas that will lead to economic growth in Africa is being held near Washington this week. American investors
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 June 2006 Sauri, in western Kenya, is one of a dozen so-called Millennium Villages set up across the continent by American and African development experts and funded by governments and private donors. Local committees wi
Millions of South Africans stayed up late Tuesday night to watch live broadcasts of the inauguration of Barack Obama. In cafes, restaurants and private homes, they discussed the message and significance of the event. The inauguration of Barack Obama
The South African organization, the Homecoming Revolution, hosts a job fair to lure London-based ex-patriots back to South Africa Tens of thousands of South Africans have made Britain their home over the past two decades, attracted by higher wages an
G-8 leaders in Italy pledged to cut global emissions 50 percent by 2050. But advocacy organizations say that the commitment is much too weak and too vague for sub-Saharan Africa, which is already facing serious challenges due to a changing climate.
Photo: AP Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows a female Iranian protestor holding a poster of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran
Not too long ago, Justin Silbaugh worked in California's high-tech industry. Today, the 40-year-old lives, works and volunteers in the East African nation of Uganda. For the last two years, he has been the country director of an arts education projec
By Efam Dovi Accra 15 November 2006 A conference of African population experts in Ghana says unless deep-rooted cultural practices, ignorance, and war are addressed, efforts to save the lives of thousands of women who die each year from complication
By Nancy Palus Dakar 21 April 2008 Throughout West Africa gold, bauxite, uranium and other lucrative minerals are being extracted from the land, but local communities benefit little or in many cases lose out. Human-rights and development experts at a
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 28 February 2008 A video circulating on the Internet depicting the humiliation of older black workers by white students has outraged and sickened South Africans. As VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Joha
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 April 2007 Experts say global warming is likely to affect people living in Africa more than on any other continent and warn that African policymakers must begin to prepare for such an event. An international panel of exp
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 11 June 2007 President Bush's nominee to be the next head of the World Bank is on a three-continent trip aimed at familiarizing himself with some of the Bank's financiers and customers. Robert Zoellick is in Europe after vi
By Roger Hsu Washington, DC 06 February 2008 On a number of islands off the coasts of the southern states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, live the Gullahs, a group many believe is the most authentic African-American community in the U.S. The