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Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics and the African diaspora.

  1. 13 HR AGO

    Africa News Tonight: MSF leaves Khartoum hospital, Somalia, Ethiopia mend ties, steel maker quits South Africa in face of cheap imports - January 14, 2025

    Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, has suspended its activities at one of the few hospitals still operating in Sudan’s capital because of attacks from fighters in Sudan’s conflict. We take a look at the significance of Somalia and Ethiopia’s restoration of diplomatic ties. One of the world’s biggest steelmakers, ArcelorMittal, says it will stop operating in South Africa at the end of January, and industry experts expect Africa’s largest economy could lose 100,000 jobs as a result.

    25 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Africa News Tonight: Video shows deaths in South Africa mine, France faces Africa tensions, terrorist groups recruit children in Africa - January 13, 2025

    In South Africa, a video has surfaced showing more than a hundred dead bodies in a disused gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped for more than six months. France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies and fresh tensions were ignited with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron. One of Africa’s top security research organizations says terrorist groups on the continent are recruiting children as young as 11 and training them as extremist fighters.

    25 min

  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    Africa News Tonight - January 10, 2025

    Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.

    25 min

  4. 5 DAYS AGO

    Africa News Tonight: Carter eulogized in Washington, Nigerians remember fight against Guinea worm, Mozambique opposition leader returns - January 09, 2025

    Speakers including his grandsons and President Joe Biden gave eulogies for former President Jimmy Carter today at his state funeral in Washington D.C. The people of Ebonyi state in southeast Nigeria are expressing gratitude to the late President, who led efforts to eradicate Guinea worm in their area. Thousands of people turned out today to meet Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane after he returned home from more than two months in exile as he asserts that he won the October presidential election.

    25 min

  5. 6 DAYS AGO

    Africa News Tonight: Americans say farewell to Jimmy Carter, Chad pushes for French withdrawal, Turkey advances mediation effort in Sudan - January 08, 2025

    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s body is lying in state in the Capitol in Washington, and people began lining up at 4 a.m. today despite cold, windy conditions. Chad's government has reiterated its order for French troops to completely withdraw from the country before the end of this month, after French President Emmanuel Macron said African countries are ungrateful for France's role in fighting militant insurgencies. The United States says it has determined Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Force is committing genocide in the country's war, as Turkey steps up its efforts to mediate in a conflict that has regional influences.

    25 min

  6. 7 JAN

    Africa News Tonight: Fears grow about freed prisoners in Syria, nations seek new defense strategy, Seychelles sees great-power competition - January 07, 2025

    Fears are growing in the Maghreb countries about Syria’s release of prisoners, because some of those freed might be militants from the region who will want to return home. Ivory Coast joins a growing list of countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, and Senegal, that have severed military ties with France, their former colonial ruler. The small island nation of the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa has become the unlikely setting of a great-power rivalry.

    25 min

  7. 6 JAN

    Africa News Tonight: US Congress meets to certify 2024 election, Africa conflicts likely to continue, Cameroon seizes militant weapons - January 06, 2025

    Today US lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's presidential election win --a procedure that happens every four years after the vote and two weeks before the president's inauguration. 2024 was a year of conflict, with wars in Gaza and Ukraine claiming thousands of lives, and Africa was not spared, with conflict in Sudan, rebel attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and terrorism across the Sahel region. Cameroon’s military says it has seized several hundred weapons and combat uniforms that were being smuggled to a hideout of the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.

    25 min

  8. 3 JAN

    Africa News Tonight: Nations urged to have united front on AGOA, cholera vaccine reaches South Sudan, US Congress faces challenges - January 03, 2025

    Since its enactment in 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, has been at the core of U.S. economic policy and commercial engagement with Africa and one expert says African nations should work together on trade talks. More than 1.1 million doses of an oral cholera vaccine have arrived in South Sudan, as the government launched a program to inoculate more than 80 percent of the population. The 119th U.S. Congress will come into session Friday, but after a contentious battle over government funding last month, the Republican Party’s seemingly unified control of the Senate, House of Representatives and presidency faces challenges.

    25 min
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Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics and the African diaspora.

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