Newsletter Archive

Is it time to get real and accept North Korea as a nuclear state? Russia seems to think so, and is increasingly advocating an arms control strategy. That’s counter to the position held by the US and its allies — and even, to a degree, China — which all support applying sanctions to force Pyongyang into talks to get rid of its nukes.

A gang of serial killers is behind the murder and mutilation of several women in Uganda, according to authorities there. Since May, the bodies of 21 women have been found in two towns not far from the capital. VOA is in Kampala, where authorities say the killers wanted blood and body parts to use in their ritual practices.

Immigrants are an integral part of the Houston area and they’re among the local residents struggling to rebound from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. From flooded-out homeowners, to empty restaurants and conveniences stores, just about everyone in the affected area took the hit and is working to bounce back.

Dream on. Lawmakers have six months to come up with a plan for the more than 800,000 people who have temporary legal status under DACA. The Trump administration has announced that the program — which allows undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children to work and go to school without fear of deportation – will be phased out by March 2018 unless Congress passes legislation to preserve it. Here are the options currently on the table that could allow DACA recipients to keep on dreaming.

Eight years after residents were violently evicted from their homes, a new million-dollar night market in Phnom Penh is attracting the young and fashionable. Jet’s Container Market is now home to dozens of colorful shipping containers converted into restaurants, bars and shops. But all its former residents see is the place where they suffered after their houses were smashed to pieces.

Recent clashes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State killed at least 400 people and triggered the latest exodus of tens of thousands of Rohingya villagers to Bangladesh. Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticized over her response to the violence. Observers say she’s playing down reports of the Burmese military’s brutal treatment of Rohingya civilians.

No students showed up at a primary school that reopened this week near Cameroon’s border with Nigeria. The school in Tiriwa was deserted after Boko Haram attacks scared people off. The Boko Haram insurgency has displaced about 200,000 people in northern Cameroon since the attacks first spread from Nigeria in 2014. But Cameroon’s government wants people to return home to farm, and reopened at least 40 schools in the Far North region, despite security concerns that are keeping many students away.