Residents of Nairobi Slums Face Daily Water Challenges When the water tap threatens to run dry in this Nairobi slum, tensions rise. Women, waiting for their turn to fill their 20-liter containers of water, fight as they fear not being able to fill he...
Agriculture Report - For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It 农业报道 - 仿肉食品的挑战 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Some people in the Netherlands are spending thr...
South Africas Education System Faces Huge Challenges In December, the South Africa government hailed the 70 percent pass rate for percent high school final exams, as a major achievement. It has risen every year since 2008 when 62.5 percent of student...
Arab World Faces Serious Poverty, Food Security Challenges A new report says Arab countries face a serious food security challenge and that poverty rates are much higher than official numbers suggest. It blames the situation on vulnerability to volat...
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Illinois Nightclub Caters to Mentally Challenged We in America no longer lock away people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities as routinely as we once did, unless their impairments are profound or theyre considered a danger to themselves...
Maternal Health Poses Another Major Challenge for Somalia Two decades of civil war in Somalia have made the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth. The World Health Organization says Somalia has one of the hig...
African Rainforests Continue to Face Challenges The African continent contains about 30 percent of the worlds global rainforests, second only to the Amazon. Scientists and conservationists met at Oxford University to discuss changes the forests are e...
2011 Saw Challenges of Hunger and Poverty The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate. Worldwatch Insti...
Massive Russian Protest Poses Growing Challenge to Putin When Russias protest movement started three weeks ago, many in the Kremlin calculated that winter would kill it off. Saturday's rally to protest alleged fraud in the December 4 parliamentary el...