By Scott Stearns White House 06 January 2007 In the coming week, U.S. President George Bush is expected to call for a temporary increase in U.S. troops in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the troop surge idea is already fac...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 26 December 2006 Village leaders from a wide area of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau gathered this week to denounce the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. Public-health advocates have been working for years to educate...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 November 2006 The Nigerian government is under pressure to investigate money laundering charges against a senior presidential aide. The official was indicted by a U.S court for bringing undeclared cash into the United St...
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 01 September 2006 Months after Zimbabwe's main opposition promised unspecified mass action to protest the continued political and economic crisis in the country, the party's leadership Friday led a demonstration to parliamen...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 August 2006 India says it may withdraw its peacekeeping troops from southern Lebanon. The announcement comes as the United Nations tries to assemble a bigger international force to enforce the fledgling Middle East tr...
By Efam Dovi Accra, Ghana 27 July 2006 A recent boost in gas prices across Ghana is generating unprecedented criticism from members of the ruling New Patriotic Party, with some fearing that the party could lose the next general elections as a result...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 10 July 2006 Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is challenging the results of last week's election. He filed a petition following the very narrow, but apparent victory of his conservative oppone...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 19 June 2006 The founding legal secretary in Zimbabwe's divided opposition Movement for Democratic Change, David Coltart, has announced he has joined the faction of the party lead by scientist Arthur Mutambara. -----------...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 15 May 2006 Opposition groups in Chad are rejecting election results that show President Idriss Deby won a third elected five-year term. They say the vote was characterized by fr...