By Jade Heilmann Dakar 11 December 2007 Police say about 40 West Africans are feared dead after a failed boat crossing by would-be illegal migrants to Europe. Some of the survivors say they will try again, despite barely escaping death and throwing d...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 November 2007 Israeli officials say the United States is pushing Israel to offer a key concession to the Palestinians as a long-waited peace conference approaches. Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau. Israe...
By Phuong Tran Dakar, Senegal 05 October 2007 Hundreds of Africans, mostly young men, try every week to board fishing canoes headed for Spanish territory. Some make it, but thousands are caught, detained and sent back to Africa. Phuong Tran met with...
By Kari Barber Dakar 28 September 2007 Security experts and officials from nations across West and Central Africa say they will try to improve communication between their countries and with the United Nations in order to better assess and fight terro...
By Kari Barber Dakar 26 September 2007 Two reports released by governance watchdogs name West and Central African countries as some of the most corrupt and poorly governed in the world. Kari Barber reports from VOA's West and Central Africa bureau in...
By George Dwyer Washington 18 September 2007 American musical theater celebrates a major anniversary in 2007. Fifty years ago this month - on September 26, 1957 - West Side Story opened on Broadway. Based on William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Rome...
By Jeff Swicord Cheyenne, Wyoming 10 September 2007 Workers at adairy farm There is growing concern that farms and ranches in the western U.S. could become the target of agroterrorism. The devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in Britain a...
By Shelley Schlender Colorado 21 August 2007 The natural beauty of the American West is prompting more people to build homes in wildland areas. Wildfires are also natural in those areas, and as climate change increases temperatures and drought, blaze...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 18 August 2007 The West African country of Togo recently announced more bird flu infections outside its capital, making it the seventh West African country to report finding the deadly H5N1 virus in its poultry. Bird flu experts...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 17 August 2007 For the past few weeks, pounding rains across Sub-Saharan Africa have killed about 100 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, leaving many families homeless. While humanitarian workers struggle to take ca...