"So I don't think we're going to see a lot of deployment in a region or continent like Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

It's part of the "eco-school" program in Gud-Chantier, a village in Senegal's Fouta region along the country's border with Mauritania.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Education specialist in the Kolda region,Oumar Diatta, says early pregnancy is a form of violence against girls because it has negative effects on their health, their morality and their education.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Mahecic says in the past five days, arrived in Yemen after crossing the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa, a region beset by conflict, political instability, famine and drought.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

They are the nurseries of the ocean, where many species of fish and shrimp breed and serve as a buffer against coastal erosion in a region where much of the population livesin low-lying areas.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library into a meeting place and tourist attraction, inspire a classic American town, bring together an entire region and eventually become famous around the world?

VOA: special.2009.02.23

"This region that has known a lot of hardship will bounce back just like it has bounce back before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

A day earlier gunmen killed one person and wounded three others in an attack on a taxi in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Pointing to a map of the region, she says there are deep and shallow corals throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The latest fatality in Chechnya occurred Wednesday, when masked gunmen abducted and shot a police officer in the southern Vedeno region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The surrounding region is turning out to be a treasure trove for archeologists, anthropologists and speleologists, or cave explorers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

And it,as well as this region, will be shaped to a large extent by the decisions that we make."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

A similar missile attack in the neighboring South Waziristan border region in early August killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baituallah Mehsud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14