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

But they say it sends an appropriate signal that says the U.S.will not give up, and at the same time the troops will not stay in the region a day more than they must.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Nabhan is thought to have been closely tied to Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, al-Qaida's chief operative in the region and a suspected mastermind of the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The CIA facility was located opposite to the Waziristan tribal region and was reportedly playing a key role in gathering intelligence information to guide U.S.unmanned spy planes to launch drone strikes on al-Qaida and Afghan militants hiding on the Pakistani side of the border.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

"There is a perception that President Obama brings with him a sensibility and sensitivity to the region and I think that will stand him in very good stead because there is already a very strong expectation that President Obama will set a new direction for US policy towards its partners, towards APEC, and in particular towards Asia."

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

After the meetings, Mitchell told journalists it is imperative to achieve a full and comprehensive peace in the region to improve the lives of everyone "We believe that a full comprehensive peace represents the best way to help all of the people of the region achieve the security, the peace,and the prospect for prosperity for individual citizens that all deserve,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"It reacts with that region, it inactivates the virus and the virus never has a chance to enter the cells that it would otherwise infect."

VOA: special.2010.07.14

There are around a half-million cases a year, mostly in the Amazon basin, a region heavily affected by deforestation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"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

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

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

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 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