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On this annual edition of Encounter, Kori Schake, senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Brian Katulis, Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute talk with host Carol Castiel about the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges that face the second year of the Biden Administration as midterm elections loom.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

African Beat showcases the latest and the greatest of contemporary African music and conversation. From Benga to Juju, Hip Life to Bongo Flava, Bubu to Soukous and more, host David Vandy has his finger on the pulse of the hottest African music and related issues today.

Quick, informative, fun. VOA’s International Edition brings the world together with U.S. perspectives. Experts, analysts, social media views and newsmakers themselves help tell today’s stories everyone wants to hear. Brighten your day with VOA’s International Edition - on air, online, mobile.​

On this annual edition of Encounter, Kori Schake, senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Brian Katulis, Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute talk with host Carol Castiel about the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges that face the second year of the Biden Administration as midterm elections loom.

VOA's Sonny Young brings you the latest sports news and trends as well as questions and comments from sports fans around Africa and the world.

Our Voices, in its fourth year of broadcasting, has discussed myriad of topics since its inception in November 2018. In 2021, the show went through a major metamorphosis with three new anchors – bringing new energy and perspective to the show! On this week’s program, co-host Auriane Itangishaka will reflect on some of the stories that were featured over the past year, through the eyes of her new colleagues – Ndimyake Mwakalyelye, Amina Aliyu, and Simegnish Yekoye!

Dozens of former employees of the World Food Program have blocked the entrance to a humanitarian hub in Bor on Friday. The workers, who are protesting a three-month delay in payment, blocked the gates of a compound hosting U.N. agencies.

The 1994 African Footballer of the Year, Emmanuel Amuneke, scored goals for Nigeria at both the Nations Cup and the World Cup. He's shown in the photo scoring a goal against Italy at the 1994 World Cup in the USA. On Friday's show, Amuneke will talk about the 1994 Nations Cup in Tunisia, where Nigeria lifted the trophy, and the upcoming Nations Cup in Cameroon. The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, five-time African champions, will host the Stallions of Burkina Faso, the 2013 Nations Cup ru...

How can the United States strike the delicate balance between its values of democracy and human rights and its national security interests with allies who are backsliding on the former? Host Carol Castiel and VOA senior analyst, Mohamed Elshinnawi, talk with Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his new article, “Navigating the Democracy-Security Dilemma in U.S. Foreign Policy: Lessons from Egypt, India, and Turkey,” about the d...