By Selah Hennessy Dakar 11 June 2007 Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene is being buried in Dakar as praise is being showered from across the world on his career. Selah Hennessy reports from Dakar his death at the age of 84 also leaves a void, revea...
By Imran Sidiqui Washington 16 May 2007 The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department recently installed a female as their new police chief. This is part of a trend across the United States of more women working in law enforcement. The most rece...
By Zulima Palacio Washington, D.C. 14 May 2007 In the middle of one of the busiest and most crowded areas of Washington D.C. there is an oasis of peace. And every year around this time, the U.S. National Arboretum blossoms with thousands of azaleas....
By Mandy Clark London 30 April 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair took office 10 years ago, and as leader of Britain's Labour Party fashioned a political marriage with America's top Democrat, U.S. President Bill Clinton. But when a less ideologically com...
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 07 April 2007 Nigerian police have confirmed that two foreign oil workers have been seized by gunmen, the latest in a series of kidnappings in the troubled delta region. Sarah Simpson reports for VOA from Lagos. The men were s...
By Noel King Khartoum 26 March 2007 The U.N. Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs has warned that the massive aid operation sustaining Sudan's war-torn Darfur region is on the verge of collapse if insecurity in the region continues. Noel King has...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 07 March 2007 Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered an investigation after an Indonesian plane carrying 140 people crash-landed in the central Java city of Yogyakarta, killing more than 20 people....
By Deborah Tate Washington 17 January 2007 watch Leta Hong Fincher's report From left, US Senators Hagel, Biden and Levin A group of U.S. senators has drafted a resolution opposing President Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq. Among them i...
By Deborah Tate Washington 12 September 2006 Secretary Michael Chertoff The top official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned about the possibility of an attack in the United States involving weapons of mass destruction. A day af...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali 12 May 2006 Leaders from eight countries with large Muslim populations began arriving on the Indonesian island of Bali for a summit on trade and development issues. But, a...