Somali pirates are denying reports that have accused them of sharing ransom payments with an al-Qaida-linked radical Islamist group called the Shabab. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu recently visited the pirate sanctuary of Hobyo in the Galmudug region...
A factional leader in Somalia's Eritrea-based opposition group is denying allegations by a piracy specialist in Kenya that he is aiding radical Islamists by providing them with weapons bought with money earned from piracy. Yusuf Mohamed Siad, better...
Pakistani officials are denying reports that the country's intelligence service helped plan last month's fatal bombing of the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan. Reports to that effect in U.S. newspapers come just a day before the first ever meeting betw...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 07 June 2008 Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is denying rumors that he is planning to resign following weeks of criticism from his opponents, some of whom have vowed to impeach him. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 08 August 2007 Officials with Somalia's transitional government are promising not to begin searching for oil until after parliament adopts a new petroleum law and their shattered country achieves peace. But as Nick Wadhams rep...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 14 March 2007 Government officials in Kenya are vehemently denying media reports that a man, believed to be a close associate of one of the three most wanted al-Qaida operatives in east Africa, has been arrested in the coastal...
By Greg Flakus Houston 15 February 2007 The U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston is planning to ask that accused terrorist Daniel Joseph Maldonado remain in custody without bail as it prepares its case against the man who is the first U.S. citizen char...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 October 2006 A high-ranking member of the Islamist group that controls Somalia's capital, says it is not planning an attack on neighboring Ethiopia. Fears of such an attack were raised when a leader of the Islamist group dec...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 July 2006 An Indian police official says the coordinated train bombings in Bombay follow the style of a militant Kashmiri Muslim group. But that group and another have both denied any involvement. ------------- School...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 17 May 2006 The U.S. Senate Wednesday continued work on an immigration reform bill, voting to bar illegal immigrants with criminal records from becoming U.S. citizens and...