By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 05 December 2007 Ethnic Tuareg rebels in Niger say they will not negotiate with the current government because the government will never meet their demands. The statements follow an attack this week on a government convoy that...
By Birungi Machrine Kampala 26 November 2007 Attacks using acid are becoming more frequent in Uganda. Up to 2003, there were only 145 recorded attacks, but over the last three years, there have already been 87. Survivors often suffer from severe emot...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 24 November 2007 Two suicide bombers in Pakistan have killed at least 20 people and wounded many more in separate blasts on military targets in Rawalpindi, outside the capital, Islamabad. In Islamabad, VOA's Barry Newhous...
By Jim Randle Taji, Iraq 09 November 2007 U.S. military officers and local sheiks say an area north and west of Baghdad is turning away from the al-Qaida terror group and offering more support to the Iraqi government. The change follows a series of b...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 02 November 2007 The Italian government has given local authorities the power to expel European Union citizens who pose a threat to public security. The government action follows the rape and murder of an Italian woman by...
By Jim Malone Washington 31 October 2007 Senator Hillary Clinton of New York was the main target at the latest debate among Democratic presidential contenders held in Philadelphia. VOA National Correspondent Jim Malone reports Clinton's rivals went a...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 29 October 2007 The United Nations says 34 aid workers have died this year in Afghanistan - part of a surge in violence that threatens vital food deliveries before the arrival of winter. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from I...
By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2007 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayipp Erdogan says his government cannot wait forever for neighboring Iraq to deal with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party who are using northern Iraq as a safe haven from which t...
By David Gollust State Department 23 October 2007 The United States and Britain made a joint call late Monday for Iraq to take immediate steps to halt cross-border attacks by Iraqi-based Kurdish PKK militants into Turkey. The issue dominated a Washin...
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 03 October 2007 An attack on a diplomatic convoy in Baghdad has injured Poland's ambassador to Iraq and killedthree other people. VOA's Jim Randle reports from Irbil in northern Iraq. Explosions wounded the Polish ambassador...