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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 September 2006 A U.N. development agency report says the current system of providing aid to Africa is not working, and calls for a Marshall Plan-style system to replace it. In its latest report, the U.N. Conference on Trade
By Lisa Bryant Villentaneuse, France 29 March 2006 Police forces use a water canon on protesters who are demonstrating against the first job contract law, known as CPE France has been roiled by waves
By Phuong Tran Dakar, Senegal 22 November 2006 Discovered three years ago in Kenya, an Asian fruit fly species is spreading throughout Africa, posing a threat to crops and livelihoods. Farmers and government officials are starting to devise strategi
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By Nico Colombant Dakar 29 November 2006 Entrepreneurs are making money from Africans dreaming of migration. These include businessmen who have set up tents to facilitate the application process for the yearly United States green card lottery. VOA's
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 01 November 2006 Francoise Le Goff The Red Cross says funds for its AIDS programs in southern Africa are due to run out in three months. Officials made the announcement in South Africa as they launched what they said was t
By Larry London Washington, DC 27 October 2006 watch Los Lobos report Los Lobos Tex-Mex rock is alive and well after more than 33 years thanks to the original sounds of Los Lobos. The group recently released their new CD, The Town And the City, that
By Kurt Achin Seoul 20 April 2006 South Korea and Japan are working to prevent a diplomatic confrontation over disputed islands from escalating. Authorities in Seoul say they hope diplomacy will be su
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 17 March 2006 Thais demonstrate against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra In Thailand, tens of thousands of protesters continue their daily rallies demanding the resignation of Pr
Five months after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, Texas, the island city on the Gulf of Mexico below Houston is struggling to recover. The economic slump in the nation as a whole has made the task more difficult, but many islanders are determine
By Monaliza Noormohammadi San Francisco 27 October 2009 A disposal company in San Francisco takes trash very seriously. For more than 15 years it has invited selected artists to create works of art out of the trash San Franciscans throw away. The ar
Israel evicted dozens of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem on Sunday. The move touches on one of the core issues of the Middle East conflict. Israeli Jews enter a house after police evicted its Palestinian residents in the East Jerusalem ne
Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett warns that efforts to save some endangered plants and animals may be abandoned due to a lack of money. Garrett says the government plans to concentrate on protecting fragile ecosystems rather than indivi
By Deborah Tate Washington 13 January 2006 Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito Witnesses will resume testifying Friday at Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. They began their
By Phuong Tran Dakar 04 April 2007 Throughout Francophone West Africa, analysts say France's influence has been changing. In Senegal, the country observed its 47th year of independence from France. With an octogenarian president entering his last ter
By Doug Levine Washington 06 May 2007 Guitarist Paul Brown is a Grammy Award-winning smooth jazz producer. But lately, he's been making a name for himself as a solo recording artist. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, Brown gets a little help from some f
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 October 2006 Unidentified children of farm laborers, who faces eviction, inside their home near Messina, South Africa, in February 2005 A new report says the practice of forced evictions is increasing dramatically in Africa
By Catherine Maddux Washington 07 February 2006 From East Africa all the way to the southern most part of the continent, drought has ruined crops, leaving millions of people dependent on international
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 20 June 2007 Expectations are low in the Middle East following a White House Summit between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, last week's
By Al Pessin Baghdad 11 February 2008 During a visit to Baghdad Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates endorsed his Iraq commander's proposal for a pause in the U.S. troop drawdown after the last of the surge troops go home in July. VOA's Al Pes