By Dan Robinson Washington 19 June 2007 Following his meeting with President Bush, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went to Capitol Hill for talk s with congressional leaders. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, these came as U.S. lawmakers joined the Bus...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 26 May 2007 Ivory Coast's prime minister, Guillaume Soro, travelled to Burkina Faso Friday to assure the man who mediated the latest agreement between's Ivory Coast's warring sides that efforts to implement the agreement were con...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 07 May 2007 Bangladesh's former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has returned to Dhaka after being away for two months. Ms. Hasina and senior members of her political party face murder charges stemming from violent political p...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 11 April 2007 Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is one of 56 political leaders in Bangladesh now facing charges for the deaths of several people during political street campaigns last year. The move is the latest by author...
By Catherine Makino Tokyo 10 April 2007 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki holds a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, 10 April 2007 Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on a visit to Tokyo, says there is no need to set a deadline for the United S...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 29 March 2007 Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont says new elections will be held December 16 or December 23, to restore elected democratic government. As Ron Corben reports for VOA Mr. Surayud also rejected calls by the junta...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 02 March 2007 As tensions in Guinea subside following weeks of deadly anti-government protests, the nation's newly appointed prime minister faces the arduous task of forming a new government, improving basic services, working...
By Jim Randle Baghdad 25 January 2007 Iraq's prime minister says his new security plan for Baghdad will leave no sanctuaries for militants to hide, not mosques, schools, or offices of political parties. VOA's Jim Randle reports from Baghdad, where M...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 December 2006 Ali Mohamed Gedi (7 Dec 2006) Somalia's prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, says the government's Ethiopian-backed troops have reached entry points into the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamists abandoned the city....
By Steve Herman Tokyo 14 December 2006 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for India and Japan, Asia's two largest democracies, to construct an arc of advantage and prosperity across the continent. Analysts have said the two countries ar...