By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 16 October 2007 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the 850 million hungry people in the world. A ceremony was held at FAO headquarters in Rome...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 May 2007 Fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic extremists has been raging around a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. The death toll has climbed to more than 50 since the gunbattles started Sunday. VOA...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 14 May 2007 Civilians from the northern Casamance region of Senegal are being displaced again, following renewed fighting between rebel groups. Hundreds of people are reported to have fled to the nearby Gambian border region t...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 10 April 2007 In Chad, dozens of people have been reported killed or wounded in fighting that began Monday between government forces and rebels in the eastern part of the country near the border with Sudan. Chad's government says...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 March 2007 Jordan's King Abdullah is urging the United States to make a new commitment to peace in the Middle East. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, where the king told a joint meeting of Congress that ina...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 23 January 2007 Duck farmer looks to her duck receiving vaccination from Agricultural officials and volunteers in Penati, Bali, Indonesia, 23 Jan 2007 Fresh outbreaks of bird flu have triggered a renewed United Nations call for...
By Noel King Khartoum 10 December 2006 Fighting is flaring across Sudan's embattled western Darfur region, the Kenyan woman holds a poster during a protest march in Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Dec 2006 African Union warned Sunday. The AU reports at least 22 p...
By Gary Thomas Washington 04 December 2006 Pakistan announced Monday that its foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, will go to Afghanistan Friday for a three-day visit. A Pakistani spokeswoman says the talks will focus on bringing what she labeled peac...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 October 2006 New fighting has erupted in Sri Lanka between government forces and the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels before peace talks scheduled for the end of the month. The decision to hold talks had raised hopes of...
By Noel King Khartoum 02 September 2006 In Sudan's Darfur region, African Union officials and human rights observers say the government has begun shelling villages in volatile northern Darfur. The renewed violence follows reports of a government tro...