Underneath the designs, the fabric itself is imported from Benin, even though Burkina Faso is Africa's largest producer of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Guinea Bissau has Africa's second lowest rating on the U.N.'s Human Development Index measuring life expectancy,education, and standards of living.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Secretary Clinton's Africa trip was meant to follow-up on the policies outlined in President Barack Obama's speech before Ghana's parliament last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

He is Africa's longest-ruling leader, but he has been making the rounds of international society like a newcomer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

This is Africa's Sahara Desert, as seen from the International Space Station's new seven-windowed cupola.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Somalia,which has been plagued by civil war for nearly two decades, has Africa's third largest IDP population after Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The British Museum's Africa curator Chris Springer says they connect to a mystic past.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Gabon is Africa's sixth-largest exporter of oil and the world's fourth-biggest producer of manganese.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation,roughly divided between Christians and Muslims.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The new testing and counseling campaign will start at a single location in each of South Africa's nine provinces this month.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

For example, in South Africa, Cape Town's jazz festival included performances by more than forty international and African jazz performers.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Kenya - the birthplace of Barack Obama's father - will host the Africa and International Friends Inaugural Ball.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The groups are the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

In Wasington, America's top diplomat for Africa, Johnnie Carson,has called for talks between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and southern leader Salva Kiir.

VOA: special.2011.06.04

New York-based radio producer Wills Glasspiegel discovered this energetic music and helped bring Richard Hlungwani's work to a larger audience outside South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Justin Willis,an East Africa researcher at Britain's Durham University, says Sudan's oil industry is deep in mystery.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

He stood two hundred thirty-one centimeters -- tall even for a Dinka, some of Africa's tallest people.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In fact,D.C.health officials say infection rates in the nation's capital are higher than in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

It is the first time that the world's biggest sports event will be held in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Here she performs "Silent Night" which she recorded with the African Children's Choir in South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.24

One of the authors was Dr. Jean Nachega of South Africa's Stellenbosch University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

VOA: special.2011.07.20

Today we go on safari to experience the sights and sounds of Africa's rich wildlife.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

South Africa is a nation of forty-nine million people and Africa's biggest economy.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Today he urges other scientists to turn their attention to Africa's needs.

VOA: special.2009.07.07