International pressure is mounting for Ivory Coast to hold its long-delayed presidential elections, as controversy over the voter list threatens to once again push back the poll. In January, President Laurent Gbagbo accused the Independent Electoral...
Kenya's fragile eight-month-old coalition government is in deep crisis amid accusations that President Mwai Kibaki is trying to sideline and undermine the authority of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Months of tension between the two leaders peaked...
Russia's Gazprom energy monopoly is preparing to cut gas supplies to Ukraine if Kyiv does not repay a $2 billion debt by December 31. But Ukrainians dispute the Russian figure, and say they have enough supplies to last through the cold winter months...
North Korea says it is considering what it calls a total freeze on ties with South Korea. It is the latest sign of Pyongyang's displeasure with the South's conservative president. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports. South Korean officials ar...
A senior U.N. official says heavy trafficking of narcotics through West Africa into Europe is threatening the lives, livelihoods and stability of the region. The official says the problem of drug trafficking is competing with humanitarian and develo...
Locusts are threatening to inflict more pain on some of the most drought-ravaged parts of eastern Australia. Hundreds of farmers have found beds of locust eggs and officials fear that many more have not been reported. Officials have said that recent...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 06 June 2008 Israel is threatening to invade the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. President George Bush (r) and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House, 04 Jun...
By Paul Sisco Washington 07 May 2008 Nepal's government and the non- profit World Wildlife fund are launching a new appeal to save the critically endangered one-horned rhino. Paul Sisco reports....
By Aya Batrawy Cairo 07 April 2008 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has warned influential Shiite-militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr to disarm his militia or suffer being banned from elections and politics. This was the first time the prime minister...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 02 April 2008 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow can use its seat on the Security Council to block Kosovo's membership in the United Nations. The statement coincides with the arrival in Belgrade of the first p...