By Ron Corben Bangkok 25 October 2006 Thailand's military-installed government has made political stability a priority for the next year rather than the pursuit of faster economic growth. Economists warn any slide into political conflict will damage...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 October 2006 The Somali government says it has control over a town that experienced a battle with the Islamic Courts Sunday. The coordinator of Somali affairs in Kenya, Mohamed Ali Nur Americo, tells VOA that, as of Mond...
By Noel King Khartoum 22 October 2006 Jan Pronk The Sudanese government is expelling a top United Nations envoy from Sudan, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. The expulsion comes in the wake of comments U.N. envoy Jan Pronk made on his Web site in...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 16 October 2006 Nepalese Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, left, and Maoist rebels spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara, address a joint press conference in Katmandu, October 12, 2006 Nepal's government and communist...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 09 October 2006 Islamist militia leaders in Somalia say government troops have taken control of a town near the government base of Baidoa that had been held by militias loyal to the rival Islamic Courts Union. Islamic leade...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 25 September 2006 watch Child Porn report The U.S. government is looking for ways to curb the multi-billion dollar child pornography business, which lawmakers say has grown almost as fast as the Internet. The U.S. Senate...
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 13 September 2006 In Zimbabwe, police have prevented protest marches organized by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions from taking place. In Harare and elsewhere in the country, the police sealed off the places where marche...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 September 2006 The government of Burundi and the country's last remaining rebel group Thursday met in Tanzania and finalized a ceasefire that seeks to end more than a dozen years of civil war. ----- South Africa's Presid...
By Nico Gnecchi Nairobi 30 August 2006 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, left, with Sudanese President Omar El Bashir (File photo) The Somali government and the Islamist forces that control many parts of the countryare expected to meet for a much-delaye...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 17 August 2006 The ruins of a nightclub destroyed by an explosion in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Oct. 13, 2002 Twelve Indonesian prisoners convicted of helping the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings had their sentences reduced in c...