By Jordan Davis Dakar 31 December 2006 Senegalese officials say they are investigating the killing of a top politician El-Hadj Oumar Lamine Badji (File photo) in the country's southern Casamance region. Separatist groups in Casamance have waged a tw...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 December 2006 Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, Wednesday were heading to the Somali capital, the base of the Islamic Courts Union. But Ethiopia's information minister tells VOA it is not his country'...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 December 2006 U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns has expressed hopes that a civilian nuclear-cooperation deal with India will be passed soon by the U.S. Congress. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, where...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 November 2006 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, says human rights violations against civilians in the Palestinian Territories and Israel are carried out with impunity. She says civilians bear the b...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 November 2006 U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland says the international community, governments and political leaders are in denial about the scope of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's province...
By Noel King Khartoum 19 November 2006 Sudanese officials have been giving conflicting signals about whether the government has accepted the idea of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry says there is disagreem...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 November 2006 Nigeria's National Population Commission is set to announce results of last March's national census next month. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria and the expected announcement comes at a politically sen...
By David Gollust State Department 15 November 2006 A top U.S. State Department official says he thinks Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is losing influence following his verbal attack on President Bush at the United Nations in September. Undersecre...
By Michael Bowman Washington 30 October 2006 The Bush administration says efforts to secure the U.S. border with Mexico are reducing the flow of illegal aliens into the country. The announcement follows President Bush's signing of a bill authorizing...
By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2006 Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, Monday Oct. 23, 2006 raqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says his government is working to take greater...