By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 01 March 2006 watch Black History report Frederick Douglass Over the last 80 years millions of people have observed African-American History Month in the United States...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans, LA 27 January 2006 watch Xavier University report Xavier University re-opens Among the colleges and universities that re-opened this month in New Orleans, after having lost...
By Noel King Khartoum 23 January 2006 African Heads of State pose of a group photo outside the Friendship Hall in Khartoum, Sudan during the opening of Sixth African Union Summit, Monday, Jan. 23, 200...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 18 January 2006 African leaders gather next week for an African Union summit amid a major setback in the fledgling organization's peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western...
By Scott Stearns Accra, Ghana 17 January 2006 The Bush administration has joined six American universities with six African nations to develop new primary school curricula. U.S. first lady Laura Bush...
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Bessie Coleman Was the First African-American Female Pilot By Vivian Chakarian Broadcast: Sunday, October 23, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Em...
AGRICULTURE REPORT - West African Leaders Discuss Genetically Engineered Crops By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Fo...
By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 2, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program In the News. West African countries say they will send 1)peacekeeping troops to 2)Liberia on Monday t...
By Leah Krakinowski Diamond smuggling in West Africa has become a steady, almost untraceable source of funding for U.S.-listed terror groups like al-Qaida and Hezbollah, according to information disco...
Challiss McDonough South Africa's national police commissioner says authorities arrested and deported several individuals linked to the global al-Qaida terror network last month. It is the first time...