By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 13 September 2007 The chairman of an anti-AIDS group has accused the U.N. Security Council and the West in general for ignoring what he calls a litany of horror against women in eastern Congo. For VOA, Nick Wadhams has the sto...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 05 September 2007 Residents in eastern Congo say the United Nations peacekeeping mission is not doing enough to stop the clashes that erupted this week between the army and renegade forces. The fighting has left dozens dead, a...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 30 August 2007 A rebel group in Darfur says Sudanese government forces have launched new attacks in western Darfur despite claims from Khartoum that its troops have stood down in the troubled region for several days. Nick Wadh...
By Nathan Morley Nicosia 27 August 2007 As forest fires continued to sweep through large areas of Greece, the government, in Athens, announced the arrests of seven more people suspected of starting some of the fires. The blazes have killed at least 6...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 07 August 2007 The former Soviet republic of Georgia is accusing Russia of firing a missile inside its air space. The weapon apparently did not explode, but as VOA correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Moscow, the inciden...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 06 July 2007 Cattle-herding nomads from western Kenya confirm United Nations and aid agency reports that forces of the Ugandan army are using helicopter gunships and mortar against communities living on the Kenya-Uganda border....
By Peterson Ssendi Kampala,Uganda 02 June 2007 Many Pentecostal churches in Kampala invite the afflicted to be cured. Mrs. Frances Adroa, who is HIV-positive, took them up on the offer. I am a sick person (I have HIV AIDS) so,she explains, I was prom...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 March 2007 Human Rights activists from Burma are appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Council and the international community to maintain pressure on the government's military rulers to end their repression of the country's Ka...
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 10 June 2006 Militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir Abu Bakar Bashir, the accused spiritual leader of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, is due to be released from prison soon. A top terrorism expert says his release s...
By Lisa Schlein Washington 09 February 2006 Anti-tobacco campaigners accuse tobacco companies of undermining a global tobacco control treaty and national policies based on it. They are urging delegate...