By Challiss McDonough Riyadh 28 March 2007 Arab leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia in a bid to revive their 2002 Middle East peace plan. The two-day summit will also address crises in Sudan's Darfur region, Iraq and Lebanon. VOA Correspondent Challi...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 February 2007 Filmmakers, fans and critics are preparing to attend one of Africa's largest film festivals known as FESPACO. As theaters are shutting down across Africa, the festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso opening this S...
By Doug Levine Washington 05 February 2007 Guitarist Lee Ritenour has been keeping busy ever since he left the popular jazz quartet Fourplay. Since his departure in 1998, he went back to work making solo albums, including his latest effort inspired...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 05 February 2007 More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country's black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided i...
By Jordan Davis Dakar 21 January 2007 People march during the opening of the World Social Forum in Nairobi, 20 Jan 2007 At this week's World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya fair-trade campaigners are putting a priority on restarting the so-called Doha...
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 17 January 2007 The Ho Chi Minh City stock exchange has been chalking up extraordinary numbers. The VNIndex is up about 31 percent since the start of this year. The market's enthusiasm reflects Vietnam's strong economy, but...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 14 January 2007 Miners handle stones on a hilltop of Mbola mines in Democratic Republic of Congo (File photo) The collapse of a diamond pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, in which 15 people were repo...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 10 December 2006 Central African Republic French military officials are saying rebels in the Central African Republic have lost the last northern town they were holding, nearly two weeks into a counter-offensive. VOA's Nico C...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 09 December 2006 The report published this week by a bipartisan U.S. panel urging policy changes in Iraq has not been warmly received in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, particularly its recommendatio...
By Kurt Achin Seoul, South Korea 15 November 2006 watch North Korea Kumgang Mount Kumgang, North Korea The international community is looking at ways to enforce U.N. sanctions imposed after North Korea conducted its first-ever nuclear test on Octobe...