By Meredith Buel Washington 15 October 2007 A top U.S. military commander in Iraq says American armed forces in al-Anbar province have defeated insurgents from al-Qaida in Iraq. As VOA correspondent Meredith Buel reports from Washington, that does no...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 11 October 2007 A group of 12 Zimbabwe women who say they regularly have been mistreated in police custody have produced an interim report they say documents shocking statistics of violence against members of their...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 October 2007 The international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says it is launching a worldwide appeal aimed at getting donors and governments to support a campaign to provide ready-to-use food to malnouris...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2007 The international environmental organization Greenpeace has opened a forest defenders camp on Indonesia's Sumatra Island to bring global attention to the country's destruction of its forests. VOA's Nanc...
By Cindy Saine Washington 04 October 2007 The U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a hearing Thursday on the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force to be deployed to Sudan's Darfur region. Several members of Congress and a numbe...
By Barbara Schoetzau Washington 28 September 2007 A private U.S. foundation has launched a $100 million initiative to strengthen health systems in Africa. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the initiative will support...
By Cindy Saine Washington 25 September 2007 The non-profit group One-Laptop per Child has announced a program to sell its durable laptop computers to American and Canadian residents for $399. The profit from the sale of each computer will allow the p...
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 Phuong Tran Dakar 22 September 2007 A meeting of rebel groups from Sudan's Darfur region, aimed at finding a common position ahead of October peace talks, has been temporarily suspended. Phuong Tran reports from VOA's Central and West Africa burea...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 18 September 2007 A Muslim human-rights group held a small demonstration in downtown Nairobi to protest what it said was the rendition of at least 117 people from Kenya to Ethiopia as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. Nick W...