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Aid and Development

A worker picks coffee beans on a plantation on the slopes of the Poas Volcano, northwest of the capital of San Jose, Costa Rica.

Audio Supporting Growth In Central America

Over the past two decades, Latin America has made tremendous strides forward More

A patient who tested positive for extreme drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa. (File).

Audio Improving Health In Africa

Governments that wish to safeguard the health of their own citizens must begin by helping to protect the health of people living continents away More

Women Have A Role In Securing Peace. (File)

Audio Steinberg On Role Of Women In Peace, Security

Women and girls have a unique perspective on the causes and effects of conflict on the population.More

Crops in Zimbabwe

Audio Zimbabwe's Resources For Zimbabwe's People

A conducive and transparent business environment is critical to establishing a sound foundation for sustainable economic recovery. More

School children in Guatemala. (file USAID)

Audio Toward Zero Hunger In Guatemala

We welcome the commitment of the Guatemalan government to prioritize child nutrition and are committed to working side-by-side. More

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An internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at a new settlement in Somalia

Audio To Eradicate Extreme Poverty

“By working together to meet these and other targets over time."
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A health worker in Haiti tests blood samples. (file)

Audio Goosby On Partnering For World Health

“As we recognize World Health Day, we are reminded that disease knows no borders."
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Refugees wait in line to receive packages of food that had been air-dropped by the World Food Programme (WFP) in South Sudan.

Audio Continuing Help For The Sahel

“We remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel."
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A vendor sorts tomatoes at the Agbogboloshie food market in Accra, Ghana.

Audio Fighting Hunger By Helping Women

The U.S. Government has placed a clear focus on increasing economic opportunities for women.
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New Refinery in India Could Boost Trade with Pakistan.

Audio Asian Economic Integration

Many countries in South and Central Asia stand to benefit from increased trade and economic integration, or a New Silk Road.
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Andrew Mayoc, vice-presidente da Millenium Challenge Corporation

Audio New MMC Investment in Honduras

Millennium Challenge Corporation is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency that works with countries to implement development projects.
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Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq. (file)

Audio Resettling Former Ashraf Residents

The United States deeply appreciates humanitarian gesture by Albania.
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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov signs the East-West gas pipeline in Shatlyk, Turkmenistan. (File)

Audio U.S-Turkmenistan Relations

Relations between the United States and Turkmenistan, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake, have never been stronger
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Indian street children eat food at a shanty town in Hyderabad.

Audio Calling For Child Survival In India

Conference sought comprehensive and local solutions that encourage country-ownership.
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A farmer checks his wheat crop on the outskirts of Lahore. (File)

Audio On Preventing Postharvest Loss

One of the most affordable ways to feed more people is to ensure that the food already produced is not lost between the farm and the table.
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Suman, a 25-year-old pregnant woman, lies on an examination table as a nurse places her hands on her stomach during a check up at a community health centre in the remote village of Chharchh, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Audio Boosting Child Survival

Dramatic reductions in preventable child deaths can be achieved through concerted action in five critical areas,
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Targeted food distribution by USAID partner Save the Children in Barisal region of Bangladesh. Aid programs should be viewed as an investment, Kerry said.

Audio Foreign Policy As An Investment

“America ... has proven again and again that there is an indispensable capacity to help bring about peace."
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) shakes hands with Egypt

Audio Kerry On Support For Egypt

Morsi needs to implement reforms that will help his country secure an IMF agreement.
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Internally displaced Somali children line up with containers in hand to receive food aid at a food distribution center, in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Audio U.S. Aid To Somalia

U.S. believes that it is important to improve the country’s stability through targeted interventions.
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In Africa, there are over 15 million refugees and nearly six million internally displaced people.

Audio Helping The World's Refugees

Aiding refugees abroad and offering resettlement of many in the United States is a “core part of who we are as a nation.”
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John Kerry, the new U.S. Secretary of State, greets employees of the State Department in Washington February 4, 2013. Today is Kerry

Audio Kerry On Foreign Policy

“Today’s world is more complicated than anything we have experienced”:
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Pakistan is a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid, and one program by the U.S. Agency for International Development

Audio U.S. Committed To Partnership With Pakistan

“We want to ... assist Pakistan in reaching its potential economically, socially, and politically."
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M23 rebels near the town of Bunagana, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Nicolas Pinault/VOA)

Audio Ending Congo Instability A Moral Imperative

Despite the DRC’s seemingly intractable troubles, it would be a mistake for the international community to give up on it.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during the Angelus prayer from the window of his Castel Gandolfo summer palace, on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005.

Audio An Historic Resignation

Pope Benedict XVI is the first pontiff in over 600 years to give up the reins of authority and resign from the papacy.
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USAID land reform project in Tajikistan

Audio Land Reform In Tajikistan

Over its three years, more than 102,000 citizens took advantage of the USAID Land Reform Project.
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Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard near burned trailers at Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad, Iraq. (File)

Audio Hurriya Resettlement Begins

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns. (File)

Audio Burns On U.S.-New Zealand Relations

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission. (File)

Audio The U.S. Sets Priorities For The Arctic Region

Men transport food aid intended for recently liberated portions of the country, near Sevare, Mali, Feb. 4, 2013.

Audio New Aid Reaffirms U.S. Commitment To Mali

Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali. (file)

Audio Rice On Counterterrorism

Bangladeshi newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman, center, is brought to a court following his arrest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 11, 2013.

Audio Keeping The Press Free In Bangladesh

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies (C) answers reporters' questions after his talks with South Korean chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization Lim Sung-nam (not pictured), at the foreign ministry in Seoul May 14, 2013.

Audio Davies On North Korea