By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Latest News From Around the globe | Rated

It has been three years since Chad became an oil-exporting nation. The promise of petroleum revenues had fueled hope that the central African country, long one of the world's poorest, would embark on the road to prosperity. But there are few, if any, visible signs of improvement. Joe Bavier recently traveled to Chad and filed this report.

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By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Latest News From Around the globe | Rated

Internationally-acclaimed actress Naomi Watts has taken a volunteer job as a special United Nations envoy on HIV/AIDS.  Watts has just returned from a fact-finding trip to southern Africa.

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By Voice Of America | On February 8, 2006 | In Latest News From Around the globe | Rated

Fighting between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims in western Afghanistan Thursday has killed at least four people and wounded about 50 others.

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