Good evening, my fellow citizens: This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offen...
By Efam Dovi Accra 12 September 2006 In Ghana, mining companies are being forced to cut energy use by 50 percent to help the country through its worst energy crisis in nine years. The country's bulk electricity supplier, the Volta River Authority, s...
By Gary Thomas Washington 31 July 2006 The crisis in Lebanon is greatly complicated by the fact that Iran is a key backer of Hezbollah, which is locked in conflict with Israel. VOA correspondent Gary Thomas, who was recently in Iran, reports that th...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 31 May 2006 Tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence wracking East Timor are facing a humanitarian crisis, with food, water, and medicine in short supply at dozens of camps that have sprung up around the cap...
By Raymond Thibodeaux N'Djamena 27 April 2006 Less than three years after Chad starting shipping its oil, there is growing resentment and even hostility toward Chad's government, widely perceived here...
School Crisis: Girls Dominate Remarks: Remember when girls became nurses and not doctors, 1) stenographers not C.E.O.s, teachers not 2) principals? Well, that’s not the way it is anymore. Today, sch...
HEALTH REPORT - UN Says AIDS Crisis Is Getting Worse By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 This is Phoebe Zimmerman with the VOA Special English Health Report. The Fifteenth Internationa...
IN THE NEWS - Haiti's Political Crisis By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, February 21, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Jean-Bertrand Arisitide The Organization of...
Jan 24, 2003 Mizuho, the world's largest bank in terms of assets, expects to post a net loss of $16 billion, the largest ever 1) incurred by a Japanese company. The loss would be more than double last...
By Cathy Majtenyi Uganda says conflicts in Darfur can be traced to British colonial rule and blames the colonial policies for the rise of rebel movements throughout the country. Ugandan presidential s...
