By Jim Bertel Washington 27 December 2006 Watch Bush, Ford report Former President Gerald Ford was rememberedWednesday by President Bush as a great American who spent the best years of his life serving the U.S. VOA's Jim Bertel has more on reaction...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 27 December 2006 Health teams are combing a Lagos neighborhood Wednesday in search of survivors of Tuesday's pipeline explosion who need urgent treatment. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that several bodies were buried la...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 December 2006 Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, Wednesday were heading to the Somali capital, the base of the Islamic Courts Union. But Ethiopia's information minister tells VOA it is not his country'...
By Jim Malone Washington 27 December 2006 Watch Gerald Ford report Former President Gerald Ford, who healed a divided nation in the wake of President Richard Nixon's resignation and the Watergate scandal, has died in the U.S. state of California at...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 27 December 2006 A debate is beginning to take shape once again in the United States between supporters and opponents of nuclear weapons. In the 1990s, following the end of the Cold War, many Americans questioned whether t...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 27 December 2006 President Bush says former U.S. President Gerald Ford will be remembered as a man of great integrity, who led the nation at a time when it needed healing. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson repor...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Banda Aceh 27 December 2006 Indonesia and its tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have taken another big step away from their conflict-ridden past with first-ever direct elections in the former separatist region. The historic Decem...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 27 December 2006 Former President Gerald Ford - the longest-living American president - has died at the age of 93. A statement from his wife, Betty, did not cite a cause of death. Mike O'Sullivan reports, Mr. Ford took...
By Linda Cashdan Washington 27 December 2006 Former President Gerald Ford is dead at the age of 93. Mr. Ford had been in declining health this year, battling pneumonia and undergoing two heart procedures. He suffered a mild stroke in 2000. The 38th...
By David Gollust State Department 26 December 2006 The United States said Tuesday Ethiopia has genuine security concerns in Somalia and has intervened at the request of that country's legitimate governing authority. But the State Department called o...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 26 December 2006 Village leaders from a wide area of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau gathered this week to denounce the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. Public-health advocates have been working for years to educate...
By Jordan Davis Dakar 26 December 2006 Senegalese fishermen say their catches are smaller because of fishing by foreign commercial vessels, 26 Dec. 2006 This year as many as 30,000 illegal migrants left West African shores for Spain's Canary Islands...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 December 2006 Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired at least four rockets at Israel, including one that hit a major city. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the Israeli government is comi...
By Kari Barber Dakar 26 December 2006 Two Chadian rebel groups signed an agreement Monday to combine their forces to continue fighting government troops. The announcement comes one day after President Idriss Deby agreed to a peace deal with a leader...
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 26 December 2006 Turkmenistan's top legislative body says a presidential election will be held on February 11 to select a successor to longtime authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who died last week. The People's Counci...
