The annual United Nations meeting of world leaders got underway Sunday with a Summit for the Future. VOA's U.N. correspondent Margaret Besheer has more.
In Goma, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a woman-led recycling company is tackling plastic pollution, and creating jobs for some of the country’s millions of internally displaced people. Zanem Nety Zaidi takes us inside this entrepreneur’s business.
At least 436 bodies have been recovered
Government OKs adding iron, zinc, folic acid and vitamin B12 to bouillon cubes
A UN office says the floods have destroyed 212,111 houses, flooded 357,832 hectares of fields and drowned 69,659 heads of cattle
About two dozen police and soldiers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti earlier this month
Voting planned for December is pushed back two years
The local currency has lost value and the price of fuel continues to increase
Many in the East African nation saw Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the head of the Ugandan defense forces, as the president's successor
Myriad existing problems makes stemming spread particularly hard
Bhitoni wakes before dawn to go foraging for baobab fruit, sometimes walking barefoot though hot, thorny landscapes with the risk of wildlife attacks
The defendants, a majority of them Congolese but also including a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian, were charged with terrorism, murder, criminal association and illegal possession of weapons
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