By Katy Migiro Nairobi 07 May 2007 Rescue teams in Cameroon resumed work at the site of the crashed Kenya Airways flight at daybreak. The plane crashed early Saturday after take-off from Doula airport in Cameroon and was found late Sunday in a mangro...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 06 May 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal Interest is high in Senegal for the French presidential election, where one the two candidates, Segolene Royal, was born. Selah Hennessy reports from Dakar that controversial immi...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 06 May 2007 Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore In Burkina Faso, voter turnout is described as low for legislative polls that the ruling party of Blaise Compaore is expected to dominate. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from...
By Anita Elash Paris 06 May 2007 France has chosen a conservative candidate as its next president. Preliminary results based on exit polls showed Nicolas Sarkozy was elected with 53 per cent of the vote. That gave him a comfortable lead over his oppo...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 May 2007 Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's vehicle, covered with red rose pattels, is on the way to Lahore, 05 May 2007 Pakistan's chief justice was cheered by thousands of supporters in the eastern city of Lahore as he took...
By Kurt Achin Kyoto 06 May 2007 Japan's Finance Minister Koji Omi makes an opening speech at the 40th annual meeting of ADB at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, 06 May 2007 Japan is devoting a sizable sum of money to making Asia's use o...
By Amberin Zaman Istanbul 06 May 2007 Turkish FM Abdullah Gul, is seen after a vote for presidential elections in Parliament in Ankara, 06 May 2007 The Turkish parliament, dominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party, has failed to get its c...
By Noel King Khartoum 06 May 2007 A displaced Sudanese woman carries her sons in the Otach Displaced Persons camp in the city of Nyala in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, (File) Saturday marked one year since the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreeme...
By Doug Levine Washington 06 May 2007 Guitarist Paul Brown is a Grammy Award-winning smooth jazz producer. But lately, he's been making a name for himself as a solo recording artist. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, Brown gets a little help from some f...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 05 May 2007 The new mayor of Somalia's troubled capital says he has implemented tough measures to help secure Mogadishu and is appealing for international help to restore badly-needed services. Mohamed Dheere spoke to VOA Corr...
By Tom Rivers London 05 May 2007 In Britain, results from local elections Thursday show that Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party has suffered big losses, especially in Scotland. Tom Rivers reports from London that with Mr. Blair likely to leave...
By Scott Stearns White House 05 May 2007 President Bush and congressional Democrats are negotiating new funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the president vetoed a measure earlier this week because it included a timetable for a troop wi...
By Anita Elash Paris 05 May 2007 French voters choose their new president on Sunday. Polls predict conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will win. During her last day of campaigning, his opponent, Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal, said a Sar...
By Amberin Zaman Istanbul 05 May 2007 Thousands of Turks held anti-government demonstrations Saturday. The rallies in defense of Turkey's secular system come ahead of a key vote in the Turkish parliament to elect a new president. As Amberin Zaman rep...
By Kurt Achin Kyoto, Japan 05 May 2007 Financial officials from the major East Asian countries say they will cooperate on a major new initiative to insure the region against financial crises. The countries have agreed to form a pool of foreign curren...
