Pyongyang has not responded to offers of help and inquiries from the US, South Korea, the WHO and UNICEF. Like no other country, North Korea could do with help against COVID-19. The country’s population is unvaccinated and susceptible to disease due to ... Read More

Queen Elizabeth II Eight new cities are being created for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, with at least one in every UK nation - and on the Falkland Islands and Isle of Man. Milton Keynes in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Bangor in Northern ... Read More

President Akufo-Addo signing the Book of Condolence for Sheikh Khalifa Bin Nahyan, former President of UAE. With him are Amer Al Alawi (left), Charge d'Affaires of the UAE in Ghana, and Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Picture: SAMUEL ... Read More

The World Health Organization says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has contracted the disease. It becomes the second case of wild poliovirus ... Read More

A total of 1.39 million children in the Tigray region are currently missing out on education because of Ethiopia’s civil war, according to the United Nations. While journalists are banned from entering Tigray, VOA was able to access the neighboring Amhara ... Read More

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends a ceremony to mark Sweden's and Finland's application for membership in Brussels, Belgium, May 18, 2022. Finland and Sweden have officially applied for membership in the NATO military alliance, spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. NATO Secretary-General ... Read More

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol Azovstal steel plant, near a remand prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, May 17, 2022. The fall of ... Read More

Togo on Monday night opened its land border with Ghana, coming more than 50 days after Ghana reopened its land borders to neighbouring countries. When Graphic Online's Volta Regional correspondent Alberto Mario Noretti visited the border post in Lome at about 8:30 am Tuesday ... Read More

The global pandemic has pushed more than 55 million Africans into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of hard work in poverty reduction on the continent. The Economic Report on Africa for 2021 blamed the growing poverty on job losses, ... Read More

U.S. forces tasked with countering the al-Shabab terror group will no longer have to "commute" to Somalia from neighboring countries, after officials reversed a decision that officials blame for allowing the al-Qaida affiliate to grow more powerful and more dangerous. On ... Read More