By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 22 November 2006 European and African nations met in Libya on Wednesday to seek ways to stem the rising tide of illegal migration. The Libyan foreign minister, Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, told the conference that EU countri...
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 17 November 2006 watch APEC Summit Preview This weekend (Saturday and Sunday) APEC -- the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group -- is having a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. The agenda includes creati...
By Luis Ramirez Beijing 08 November 2006 Leaders of 21 economies making up the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, later this month to talk about liberalizing trade in the region. Organizers also hope to move along g...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 18 September 2006 Thousands of mayors and officials from Africa gathered in Kenya Monday for the opening of the week-long Africities summit, which is to look at how local authorities can best implement the United Nations' m...
By Lisa McAdams St. Petersburg 17 July 2006 Group of Eight leaders have adopted a wide-ranging plan of action to address world problems; including concern over Iran and North Korea's nuclear programs. But the ministers also found their attention div...
By Scott Stearns St. Petersburg 15 July 2006 President Bush is in Russia for the start of the annual meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shares a word with U.S. President George W. Bu...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 21 June 2006 Leaders of the group of eight industrialized nations, known as the G-8, will meet next month in St. Petersburg, Russia. In this report from Washington, VOA Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at whe...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 03 July 2006 African leaders meeting at an African Union summit in Gambia on Sunday agreed to extend the mandate of their peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region until at least December. The summit also endorsed Senegal's decisio...
By Noel King Khartoum 28 March 2006 Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir, right welcomes Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas in Khartoum, March 28, 2006 A two-day Arab League Summit has conven...
By Joe Bavier Yamoussoukro 01 March 2006 An unprecedented summit of the principle parties in Ivory Coast's more than three-year-old civil war has ended negotiations after just one day. But, all sides...