In the Ivory Coast officials have begun registering voters for national elections due in two months. Officials say they are working toward that deadline despite persistent reports that the much-delayed vote aimed at ending the Ivorian crisis will be...
The head of Spain's civil aviation said the Spanair plane that crashed in Madrid Wednesday must have suffered more than one kind of failure. Meanwhile, grieving relatives are continuing efforts to help identify the remains of the 153 people who were...
Senior officials of international football (soccer) have been attending the Beijing Olympics, as part of their preparations for the next major international sporting event, the 2010 Football World Cup. The officials assure reporters that host nation...
The former deputy chief of Indonesia's state intelligence agency has been charged with the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Thalib. VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins has more from Jakarta. Muchdi Purwoprandjono, center, is surrou...
Chinese officials say the Beijing Olympics should bring a welcome boost to China's tourist industry. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Beijing, that while bureaucratic requirements and natural disasters have slowed tourism, officials say an upgraded infr...
The African Development Bank pledged more than $50 million on Wednesday to improve the drinking water supply in Mali. According to a recent report, half of Mali's rural population does not have access to safe drinking water. Ricci Shryock files from...
Sudan is trying to rally diplomatic support for rejecting war crimes charges against President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Sudanese officials presented their o...
The border standoff between Cambodia and Thailand remains tense ahead of high-level talks on Monday. A commander on the Cambodian side expressed doubts that the talks will lead to a resolution of the dispute over ownership of an ancient temple compl...
Zimbabwe's Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono says the country's official inflation rate is now 2.2 million percent. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg. Zimbabwean foreign currency dealers conduct transactio...
Residents in Mogadishu, Somalia say they fear the apparent murder of the director of the U.N. Development Program there may cause aid groups to further scale down their operations and deepen the country's humanitarian crisis. As VOA Correspondent Al...