The World Bank is predicting growth rates in Africa in 2009 could fall to half what they have been in the past few years. World Bank Vice President for Africa Obi Ezekwesili, attending the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa,...
U.S. President George Bush and visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas say the Middle East peace process is heading in the right direction, even though the Palestinians and Israelis still do not have an agreement. President George W....
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A nonprofit group in San Francisco, California, is trying to take bicycle-powered computers to rural villages around the world. The computer was developed with villagers in Laos. The group is the J...
The U.N. refugee agency says an increasing number of people are returning to their homes as the situation improves in Georgia. The UNHCR says many people who fled their homes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia also are returning as condi...
The World Community Grid is joining together individual personal computers to create massive processing power. The technology is helping reduce research time from years to months. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 June 2008 This is the VOA Special E...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 May 2007 Before the deadline for petitions challenging April's presidential vote, at least seven opposition candidates have filed the necessary documents. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the opposition is...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 08 March 2007 Los Angeles has hundreds of street gangs that lure inner-city youngsters into lives of crime. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the problem goes back many decades, but local officials say they are finally ma...
By George Dwyer Washington 20 February 2007 watch Peacemaker Video Game Peacemaker is a game-simulation for Middle East peace A new video game was released in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. It challenges users to participate in creating soluti...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 15 February 2007 French President Jacques Chirac is urging Sudan to accept more peacekeepers in its troubled Darfur region, while also pushing for a meeting between Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and other African leaders at...
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