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By Efam Dovi Accra 30 September 2006 In Ghana, a senior police officer and 17 others are being prosecuted for their involvement in a major cocaine drug scandal that has engulfed the West African nation. ----- Ghana Ghana's government last July set u
By Nico Colombant Dakar 31 July 2006 In West Africa's Sahel region, which has had poor rain over the past few decades, scientists and human rights activists are hard at work trying to combat some of the many negative effects of desertification - the
By Parke Brewer Washington, D.C. 30 April 2007 These are the opening weeks of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and by this time next year fans in the nation's capital will be watching their team in a brand new stadium. VOA Sports Editor Parke B
US Aid Groups Organize HIV/AIDS Camps in Africa In parts of the world where it is summer time and schools are out, many kids go to camps for different activities and fun. In Africa, there is a growing trend among U.S.-based aid groups to organize HIV
8:20 ----11:53 VOICE ONE: Low-carbohydrate diets or not, more people than ever weigh toomuch. The World Health Organization says this is a serious problem.It says the opposite problem, hunger, affects about eight-hundred-fifty-million people. But m
This is the story of a country whose music has seduced the outside world and taken on an importance that goes far beyond entertainments. You want to learn about Brazilian history without going through the books? You can just listen to the music and y
The samba rhythm developed from percussion styles used in Candomble, an African influenced religion which was banned in the slave era. In Candomble ceremonies, drummers call down different gods, or orixas who are said to act as guides and guardians f
Everybody came from everywhere else in the country to live here, so even if the original bits of samba may have come from Bahia, from Africa and such and such, uh, Rio, being a more cosmopolitan place, would incorporate all influences and create diff
The man who transformed Samba was President Getlio Vargas, who seized power with military help in 1930. Vargas controlled Brazil for 18 years, first as a dictator and later as a democratically elected president. He was both an authoritarian and a pop
The unlikely duo of Carmen Miranda and President Vargas had not always found favor within Brazil for their music ideas. But between them, they transformed the international image of Brazil and the Rio music scene by promoting samba and carnival. Duri
I would say bossa nova is a kind of soft samba, maybe played a little bit slower, just with the guitars, simpler, and very light singing, soft singing, and soft guitars doing the rhythm. Not a lot of drums like the big samba schools, maybe just a few
It is a true story, you know, he used to play his to, to study his guitar and he would study the part of the thumb like this, ting, ting, he would go like that. The thing is there was a cat watching that. And poor cat was justand he would look at the
Tom Jobim wrote many of his songs here in the countryside outside Rio. Jobim lived and worked in the house that his son and grandson are now restoring. He studied a lot Chopin, Debussy, Brahms also. He liked to wake up very early. And hes in this hou
He was the best lyricist. He never made a mistake with a song of mine. And he would come later with the perfect lyric for the song. He was very successful with women and he was not exactly a good-looking man. He was fat, short, bald. But women, I've
Garota de Ipanema, Girl from Ipanema, had been written by Jobim and Vinicius in 1962 as they sat in this bar off Copacabana, watching the girls walk by. They wrote that song just because they saw the same girl passing by the bar, going towards the be
Todd: Rebecca, I'm a huge animal lover. I love animals and Australia has lots of wildlife and animals. I was wondering, could you talk about them and starting with, what's the deal with the camels? Why do you have camels? Rebecca: Camels are not real
In China, all major aspects of peoples daily needs are epitomized by a Chinese proverb, Yi Shi Zhu Xing, which literally translates to clothing, food, residence and transportation. Now to get a better grasp of how prices have changed on these fronts
By Greg Flakus Roswell, New Mexico 04 July 2007 Sixty years ago this July 4, something happened in the desert about 100 kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the
By David McAlary Washington 14 March 2007 International financier George Soros is giving $3 million to help public health experts fight a lethal, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. VOA's David McAlary in Washington reports tha
Authorities in Pakistan say a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar has left at least nine people dead and many others injured. 巴基斯坦当局说,西北部城市白沙瓦的一个什叶派清真寺遭到自杀