By Kari Barber Dakar 01 October 2007 The government of Senegal is warning it will consider pulling its troops out of the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur if steps are not taken to guarantee the safety of their contingent. At least 10 Africa...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 29 September 2007 A suicide bomber has attacked an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 20. As Daniel Schearf reports for VOA from Islamabad, attacks in the Afghan capital are on the...
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 24 September 2007 One of the main armed groups operating in Nigeria's oil rich delta, The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, has released a statement calling an end to a four-month ceasefire on attacks a...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 September 2007 Twin suicide bomb blasts have rocked the garrison town outside Pakistan's capital city. Officials say at least 25 people have been killed and more than 60 others injured in the blasts that appeared to targ...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 August 2007 International humanitarian agencies and local aid workers in Somalia say they fear that camps for internally displaced people in the southern outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, may be the target of a military op...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 21 August 2007 A rebel spokesman in the West African country of Niger is threatening more attacks unless the government deals with them. He was speaking Tuesday, one day after four policemen were killed and three seriously injure...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 18 August 2007 On Tuesday, suicide truck bombers killed at least 400 northern Iraqi villagers who belong to the Yazidi religious minority. Before now, little has been said about this Kurdish-speaking community living mo...
Jacqueline is at the table as Mark slips behind the tent to change his clothes. Suddenly a dark shape appears from behind the brush, heading towards Jacqueline--a black bear. Just as Mark shouts a warning, Jac, bear, the attacker strikes. Blink of an...
Then as we got closer, I could see what it was. It was a California gray whale cow. The California gray whale is one of the largest animals on the planet. A fully-grown female known as a cow can easily weigh up to 35 tons, the equivalent of eleven fe...
Almost ninety percent of all alligators die in their first two years of life, falling prey to other predators including their own. But normally they don't prey on humans, so why would an alligator attack a woman. Yovy Jimenez's fatal encounter is the...