By Scott Bobb Pretoria 19 October 2006 Health officials from southern Africa and the World Health Organization (WHO) met Tuesday and Wednesday in South Africa to discuss ways to deal with growing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Because new dru...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 October 2006 An international campaign to draw attention to the huge agricultural potential of the Sahel drylands of Africa is gaining ground, with a recent workshop in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The campaign seeks to...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 11 October 2006 Asia experts in the United States say there are steps North Korea could take to further inflame the international community's anger, following an explosion in North Korea Monday that Pyongyang claimed as a...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 10 October 2006 The U.S. Defense Department says it is still evaluating data from the explosion and small earth tremor in North Korea on Monday to determine whether it was in fact an underground nuclear test, as the North Korea...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 09 October 2006 The U.S. military had little reaction to Monday's North Korean claim that it had conducted a nuclear test. But one senior official said it does not change existing contingency plans, and a Washington-based analy...
By Efam Dovi Accra 24 September 2006 Climate experts from across Africa, meeting in Ghana, say climate change would have a severe impact on Africa's water resources, energy, agriculture and eventually food security. The experts were assessing where...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 20 September 2006 A United Nations official who recently called for NATO forces in Afghanistan to help combat the sharply expanding opium trade says the country is becoming increasingly unstable. VOA's Dan Robinson repor...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 06 September 2006 Five years ago, the United States was struck by the most devastating terrorist attack in its history. Subsequent investigations indicated that al-Qaida, a radical Islamic group led by Osama bin Laden,...
By Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 30 August 2006 watch Peacekeeper report Peacekeepers stand guard The U.N. Security Council resolution on ending the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah called for adding up to 13,000 troops to the 2,000 membe...
By Meredith Buel Washington 01 August 2006 Israel has sharply increased its ground campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, in an effort to push the militants back from the border before a cease-fire is declared. Israeli military l...