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转账科技方便肯尼亚贫民窟群众 Irene Okoth and her five children have been living on 50 cents a day. That is what she earnsrecycling garbage from the nearby dump. But now, her family will be getting some help from anaid group called Conce
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 August 2007 Election officials in Sierra Leone say they will announce a date for the presidential runoff on Saturday. Final results for the first round came in Thursday with opposition leader Ernest Koroma leading outgoing Vic
By Kari Barber Freetown 07 September 2007 Sierra Leone's election officials say all preparations have been completed and the country is set for the presidential runoffs Saturday. Vice President Solomon Berewa will face opposition candidate Ernest Kor
US Synchronized Swimmers Hope Hard Work Pays Off at Olympics Their nickname is MK squared because the first letters of their first and last names are the same. Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are as close as you can get to sharing the same birthday,
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch | Sikoro, Mali 26 March 2010 In the West African nation of Mali, villagers are cutting firewood to pay their medical bills. But in an ironic twist that is making their environment more unhealthy. In the village of Kabe, about 50 k
In the slums of Kenya's capital, residents and aid groups are using new technology to send and receive money. Irene Okoth and her five children have been living on 50 cents a day in Nairobi's Korogocho settlement. That is what she earns recycling gar
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 03 October 2007 Nairobi is home to some of the world's biggest slums, and more than half of its 3 million people live in them. Many in the slums don't even have electricity, so it was quite an event recently when a white scree
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 October 2007 October 4th marks 50 years since the former Soviet Union hurled humanity's first object into Earth orbit. It was a small round device known as Sputnik -- Russian for satellite -- with four antennas and a trans
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: If you turn on a television in East Africa, you'll eventually see something like this. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, YO NO CREO EN LOS HOMBRES) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) You asked for my trust, Daniel (ph). You asked for my
NOEL KING, HOST: There's growing evidence that when your blood pressure goes up, so does your risk of developing dementia, so one of the country's top brain doctors is urging people to protect their brains by controlling their blood pressure. As NPR'
By Kari Barber Freetown 03 September 2007 A meeting at the opposition APC headquarters to train young supporters in Freetown The two parties in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff have said the only rally to be held in the capital before Saturday's vo
By Sarah Simpson Nairobi 17 October 2007 Kenyans joined millions of people worldwide in an international demonstration to end poverty on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Sarah Simpson reports from the Korogocho slum area of the c
By Kari Barber Freetown 06 September 2007 The two candidates vying for the presidency in Sierra Leone's runoff on Saturday did not take part in a joint peace march as they said they would. The march, ordered by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, was suppo
By Kari Barber Freetown 08 September 2007 Sierra Leoneans are voting in a landmark presidential runoff Saturday amid tensions in which the opposition party says their members are being harassed and intimidated. The first round of the presidential ele
By Kari Barber Dakar 17 September 2007 Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission says opposition leader Ernest Koroma has won the nation's September 8 presidential runoff. Kari Barber has more from VOA's West Africa bureau in Dakar. Ernest Koroma
Senate confirmation hearings will begin July 13th for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She must be confirmed by a vote of the full Senate before she can take the place of retiring Justice David Souter. Meanwhile
By Kari Barber Dakar 20 September 2007 Former Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Koroma was sworn in as president earlier this week. Analysts say the success of the elections and the smooth handover of power are signs that the war-scarred nation m
By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 14 November 2007 Sierra Leone's recently elected president, Ernest Koroma, will be formally inaugurated on Thursday, with eight West African heads of state expected to be in attendance. Mr. Koroma has been in office since Septe
He is one of the world's fattest cats, tipping the scales at a whopping 10kg. 这是世界上最肥的猫咪之一,称重时它能轻易掀翻对面20斤重的砝码。 But the aptly named Maximus is extremely agile and can jump and leap like any k