By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 January 2008 The World Food Program says it plans to provide through the Kenyan Red Cross urgently needed food for 100,000 people displaced by violence in the Northern Rift Valley. The WFP warns the crisis in Kenya also hamp...
By Greg Flakus Des Moines 02 January 2008 On Thursday, voters in Iowa will gather in community halls, schools, coffee shops and other venues to participate in this year's presidential caucuses. This first-in-the-nation event, officially since 1972, c...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 27 November 2007 The U.S. military is providing hundreds of tons of relief supplies to victims of the cyclone in Bangladesh, much of it using a warship and helicopters sent to the region last week from duty in the Middle East. V...
The central government has announced its goal of providing everyone in the country with basic healthcare by 2020. It's an ambitious goal for a nation that will have a population of 1.5 billion by then. Making healthcare affordable and easily accessi...
By Greg Flakus Vermillon, South Dakota 27 September 2007 One of the strongest and most efficient construction designs is the dome. Dome structures like the Pantheon in Rome have survived for centuries, while other buildings around them have crumbled....
By Greg Flakus Porcupine, South Dakota 28 August 2007 There are many ethnic radio stations and broadcast programs in the United States, but there is only one fully independent community radio station serving the residents of a Native American Indian...
By Thomas Rippe Kigali 23 August 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says the Rwandan army is providing all the support it can to the Somali national army, but the United Nations needs to do more. Thomas Rippe spoke with Foreign Minister Charles Muligande...
By William Eagle Washington 04 July 2007 In Africa, experts say the deaths of thousands of infants each year from low body temperature, or hypothermia, pneumonia and other illnesses that can strike a child within days of delivery. One way thats gaini...
By Sean Maroney Washington 12 March 2007 watch Teen Drinking report A typical high school can be full of temptation for teens struggling to recover from drug or alcohol addiction. VOA's Sean Maroney takes a look at some special schools that help tee...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 15 March 2006 The U.S. Congress has commissioned a bipartisan panel to provide an independent assessment of the situation in Iraq. The panel's leaders say their group will...