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

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

The number of arrivals has slowed as the government has shifted its focus to accommodating those displaced by instability elsewhere,such as Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Madagascar's new leader,Andry Rajoelina, takes the oath of office Saturday amid hope that his transitional government will end months of political instability.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Hyun says social instability has increased in North Korea, so leader Kim Jong-il needs to continue to reinforce his domestic power base.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

But Russia was strongly opposed to the system, saying it undermined its national security interests and could lead to more instability in Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

It also has over-stretched infrastructure in a country that has experienced decades of conflict,instability and economic stagnation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"In Sudan,the combination of conflict and drought, instability and the situation in Darfur, which is still difficult."

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"The instability of this country negatively affects the whole of Africa as well as its wider region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

However,Mohammed Said Idries is less optimistic that the electoral crisis will be resolved quickly and believes that the imminent American withdrawal is causing instability.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"Unless we solve the core issue of the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab challenges then we will always be an area of instability that costs all of us,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Instability sparked by ethnic violence in northeast Central African Republic has been made worse by the presence of Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the southeast.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Instability and the devastating effects of prolonged drought are causing tens of thousands of Somalis to take to their feet in search of a safe refuge.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

A delay in the final vote count is raising fears of further instability in a country already divided by a Taliban insurgency and smoldering ethnic tensions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

He says there's another issue. "And 27 percent name Iraq, which they are a little bit unhappy with now because of the instability and lack of government."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

(Speech) Pasechnik says there are political of continuing instability involving the enrichment question.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The lack of security and instability has embarrassed the Thai government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

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

"We are watching for signs of instability.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"How it is impacting Pakistan and especially in the areas of drug trafficking, in the areas of corruption that exist in Afghanistan which have given power to a lot of warlords which make Afghanistan in a state of perpetual instability."

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

In Lebanon, which has known long periods of instability in recent years, Paul Haidostian, who is the president of Haigazian University, believes that Mr.Obama's Nobel is a step in the right direction and is a positive omen for the future.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09