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By Paula Wolfson White House 31 May 2007 President Bush is focusing on U.S. aid to Africa in the days leading up to the Group of Eight Summit in Germany. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House . President Bush wears an AIDS awareness pin on
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 December 2006 U.S. lawmakers have focused on two situations in Africa as they wind down their business in the 109th Congress . VOA's Dan Robinson has a report from Capitol Hill. Refugees from Darfur in an UNHCR camp i
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 08 June 2006 The lawyer for a Pakistani who disappeared in South Africa says he will bring to court government leaders he says were involved in the abduction, or rendition of his client. The South African government s
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 December 2006 Africa has the highest infant and under-five child-mortality rate in the world. It also has the lowest life expectancy at birth. The statistics paint a grim picture of what it means to be a child in Africa. Th
People around the world are feeling the effects of the rising oil prices. More expensive fuel means changes in transportation habits, as well as hard times in places where the cost of basic goods is also rising. It also means an uncertain future for
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 March 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is brushing off polls which show the vast majority of the public wants him to resign. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Mr. Olmert's political fortunes ha
By Catherine Drew London 27 March 2008 Exile groups and non-governmental organizations estimate that there are between half a million and a million Zimbabwean's living in Britain. Many fled their home country as political and economic refugees when P
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 19 April 2007 Last month, Southern African leaders appointed South African President Thabo Mbeki their mediator to facilitate talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition groups in his country. The g
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, Nigeria 28 November 2006 More than 60 heads of a state and governments are arriving in Abuja, Nigeria, for the first Africa-South America summit on Wednesday. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA that foreign minister
By Nico Colombant Dakar 16 October 2006 Rains have been better than in previous years in West and Central Africa, meaning food shortages in the coming months will be lessened. But as the region marks World Food Day, U.N experts say more private inve
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 27 June 2007 South Africa's ruling African National Congress has opened a major meeting aimed at preparing the party platform for elections in two years. The conference is to debate economic and social policies, but attenti
By Al Pessin Washington 21 June 2007 A senior defense department official says the planned new U.S. military command for Africa is not being organized with combat in mind, and will not immediately result in any changes in U.S. military activity on th
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 22 June 2007 South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, will hold a conference next week (June 27 - 30) to chart its policy for the next decade and prepare to elect a new leadership at its national con
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 May 2006 A car bomb in Baghdad's Tahariyat Square which targeted an American convoy, setting the Humvee on fire, left, in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, May 29, 2006 The U.S. Defense Department has released an unclassified version of
Heavy fighting in Somalia's capital between Islamist rebels and government forces has killed at least 13. The clashes come a day after Somalia's new president returned to the country from neighboring Djibouti. A Somalian boy wounded in a mortar atta
By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 16 June 2006 Students attend classes at the Meadowlands High School in Soweto (2000 photo) South Africa's Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says many of the country's school children are unable to receive a quality education
By Andr de Nesnera Washington 11 October 2006 Tensions remain high between Russia and Georgia, after Georgia released last month four military officers arrested on spying charges - an accusation rejected by Moscow. The Russian government retaliated
By Babak Bordbar Washington, DC 10 October 2006 watch report CSNY tour Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young Over the past 40 years, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young has been among the most popular music groups in the United States. Musicians David Crosby, Step
By Nico Colombant Dakar 18 June 2007 West Africa is increasingly becoming a transit point -- as well as a stopping point -- for illicit drugs. So far, local governments have proven incapable to combat the trend. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our
By Phuong Tran Dakar 15 January 2007 Nuclear experts are expressing concern that countries trying to develop nuclear weapons may try to exploit resources in Africa. They say one of their concerns is that African nations lack the proper safeguards to