As Labor Day approaches, there’s nothing like a crab feast

The Chesapeake Bay, bordering Maryland and Virginia, is especially famous for its hundreds of millions of blue crabs.

Why Cambodia handed a $6.3 million tax bill to an English-language newspaper

Critics accuse the government of cracking down on independent media ahead of national elections in the face of growing opposition support — especially among younger voters.

Americans heed the call to help Houstonians

VOA catches a ride with a volunteer who’s using his boat to take stranded flood victims to safety.

Parents mourn journalist son who chose to ‘bear witness’

The details surrounding freelance journalist Christopher Allen’s death in South Sudan are unclear, but the 28-year-old’s motivation for covering the conflict is not.

What rehab for radicals is like in Mogadishu

Not all of the 70 former al-Shabab fighters who’ve recently been granted amnesty by the Somali government feel they were involved in something wrong.

What does ‘Make America Great Again’ really mean?

President Trump says he meant for the slogan to refer to better economic times, but critics believe the line that helped get Trump elected is racially charged.

Uganda banned plastic bags 8 years ago, but it’s hard to tell

The transition away from plastic has been a slow one, but some Ugandan business owners are starting to see the financial wisdom of going green.

Houston resident watched helplessly as flood waters engulfed his house

Paul Trinh and his wife decided to evacuate on foot, carrying their small children through waist-deep water to safety.

Italian police forcibly evicted hundreds of refugees amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe

Following an international outcry, 40 refugees — mostly children, elderly and people with disabilities — were told they’d be allowed to stay in the building for six months — VOA’s Amharic Service spoke with one of the evictees.

Is Trump’s foreign policy the same old thing?

Candidate Donald Trump promised an America-first foreign policy that would be starkly different from President Barack Obama’s strategy. However, seven months into his tenure, as the broad outlines of President Trump’s foreign policy come into focus, he appears to be continuing along the same traditional US foreign policy path.