By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 21 March 2006 At a summit in Kenya this week, East African leaders discussed how to deal with a regional drought that has put an estimated 11 million people in danger of star...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 21 March 2006 South African President Thabo Mbeki began a three-day state visit to Italy aimed at strengthening relations in order to speed economic growth. His first meeti...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 21 March 2006 Nigeria's long-delayed head count has started rather sluggishly. Gilbert da Costa reports for VOA that logistical problems could be a major challenge to what au...
By Paula Wolfson White House 21 March 2006 President Bush, right, meets with Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Washington Pres...
By Jim Malone Washington 21 March 2006 The 2008 presidential election is more than two years away, but that has not stopped several potential candidates from testing the political waters. It is possib...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 March 2006 A U.S. military court has convicted a soldier of abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and 2004 by using a dog to intimidate them. Sgt. Michael S...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 March 2006 Egypt says it might have its third human case of bird flu. A woman has preliminarily tested positive for the virus, but further tests are being run to confirm...
By Scott Stearns White House 21 March 2006 President Bush President Bush says there is more fighting ahead in Iraq, but he is confident U.S. troops will be victorious. Mr. Bush held a White House news...
By Cathy Majtenyi Mekele 21 March 2006 The northern Ethiopian region, Tigray, is plagued with inconsistent rainfall, environmental degradation, poor quality soils and other problems, making the area p...
By Amy Katz Washington, DC 21 March 2006 watch Smoking Ban report The strictest smoking ban in the U.S. recently took effect in Calabasas, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The town's mayor says pe...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 21 March 2006 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, right, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhlook on after Zia's arrival for the ceremonial reception at the Presid...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 March 2006 Britain's Prince Charles has called for greater understanding between the Muslim world and the West. Prince Charles speaking at Al-Azhar University in Cairo T...
By Nicola Fell Mexico-Guatemala border 20 March 2006 Thousands of Central Americans leave their homes each year and embark on a perilous journey north through Mexico to end up as illegal emigrants in...
By Meredith Buel Washington 20 March 2006 Afghanistan's foreign minister says there are Taleban training camps across the border in Pakistan that are sources of terrorism and instability inside his co...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 March 2006 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says his troops will pursue members of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, into neighboring Congo-Kinshasa if the...
