He said girls in one Dakar school told him about a lack of bathrooms and textbooks for them, and bullying from boys.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

An official from Kenya, Adam Barre Duale,said it showed a lack of unity in the fight against hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The South was beginning to suffer from a lack of supplies and men for its armies.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

President Obama has received sharp criticism from Republicans over the lack of progress in job creation.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving -- and not just because they lack experience on the roads.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Even more die from a lack of food or water after swallowing pieces of plastic.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The North was beginning to suffer from a lack of fighting spirit.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The book said women suffered from feelings of lack of worth.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

It results from a lack of oxygen to the brain.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Johnson cites the Central African Republic as one country where children suffer from instability and lack of basic services.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Development in Haiti has suffered repeated set backs from political violence, poor leadership,corruption, a lack of law and order and natural disasters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

But speaking from Barcelona, Hugh Cole of the charity group Oxfam, says European leaders need to focus on their own lack of political will.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"It has gone from one court to another and there has been no will actually to strengthen the case there has been lack of political will."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

But the High Commissioner for Refugees says the capital is far from safe and the lack of basic services and shelter is making life difficult for many returning families.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05