By Peta Thornycroft Harare 02 April 2008 With less than 20 seats in the parliament elections still outstanding, Zimbabwe's state-controlled Herald newspaper has reported the possibility the ruling ZANU-PF has not won the parliament elections - the fi...
By Steve Herman Islamabad 19 March 2008 Pakistan has seen its first significant transfer of power since last month's nationwide elections. The speaker of the National Assembly, a backer of President Pervez Musharraf, handed over control of the legisl...
By Cathy Majtenyi Hargeisa, Somaliland 04 March 2008 The people of the African republic of Somaliland voted in 1991 to become an independent nation. They argue that there are enough cultural, political and social differences between them and the peop...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 February 2008 A Nigerian election tribunal has upheld President Umaru Yar'Adua's victory last April, despite allegations of widespread rigging. Gilbert da Costa was in the courtroom in Abuja and filed this report for VOA....
By Steve Herman New Delhi 28 June 2007 Energy-hungry India is looking to one of its most rugged and scenic regions to generate badly needed electricity. But plans to create a series of dams and hydroelectric plants along the Teesta River in Sikkim an...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 21 June 2007 A group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers Thursday introduced legislation that would boost agricultural trade with Cuba and lift the U.S. travel ban to the communist-ruled island nation. VOA's Deborah Ta...
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 14 June 2007 African governments looking for ways to decrease corruption and improve the lives of their citizens are increasingly turning to the idea of e-government, the use computers and the Internet to ex...
By Terry Fitzpatrick Cape Town 13 June 2007 Many African countries lack the resources to effectively fight global terrorism, according to security experts who gathered in Cape Town for the World Economic Forum on Africa. Terry Fitzpatrick is there an...
By Phuong Tran Goz Beida, Chad 16 May 2007 In Chad, people are still arriving at camps to escape ethnic violence and bandit attacks along the Sudanese border. Humanitarian workers are often the first to reach out to people escaping from burning villa...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 May 2007 Factional fighting in the Gaza Strip has killed 16 people, including eight in one incident when Hamas and Fatah gunmen clashed near a border crossing with Israel. More than 20 Palestinians have died in several days...