By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 September 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says it has begun distributing much-needed relief supplies for some 24,000 people in the Somali town of Afgooye, 30 kilometers west of the capital Mogadishu. The UNHCR reports families...
By Brian Wagner Miami 10 September 2007 Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega remains in U.S. custody after his parole date, as his lawyers fight an extradition request from France. The 73-year-old Norieg...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 06 September 2007 Buddhist monks have clashed with government forces in the central Burmese town of Pakokku, and witnesses have been quoted as saying the monks have been holding government officials captive. The incident is th...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 August 2007 Nicaragua with Port Harcourt eng 210 The Nigerian army has launched raids on several suspected criminal hideouts in Port Harcourt and elsewhere in the Niger Delta in a bid to flush out gangs blamed for violenc...
By Phuong Tran Nouadhibou, Mauritania 12 August 2007 According to U.N. estimates, young people account for more than 60-percent of the African population. The continent also has some of the world's highest unemployment rates, forcing thousands on dea...
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 10 August 2007 Gunmen seized a foreign national in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt early Friday. The man, a British national, is the latest victim of kidnapping for ransom in the troubled Niger Delta where gangland violence...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 07 August 2007 Scattered violence continued a day after independence hero Xanana Gusmao was named the new prime minister of East Timor. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more. Australian troops guard empty road...
By Brian Wagner Miami 18 July 2007 Brazilian rescue workers are continuing to search for victims of a plane crash at the main airport in the city of Sao Paulo. In Miami, Brian Wagner reports that officials say nearly 190 people died when the plane ov...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 12 July 2007 Congress is continuing debate on the war in Iraq, as lawmakers react to the Bush administration's interim report on political, military and economic benchmarks the United States has set for the Iraqi governme...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 09 July 2007 The West African country of Senegal shares a common French colonial past with Vietnam. Some Senegalese soldiers serving with the French army in Vietnam in the 1930's had children with Vietnamese women. Many of these...